Climbing Quotes

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

If you are under control you're going too slow.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Routes rate me, not the other way around.

Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.