Quotes About Adventure

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

Many of my hardest climbs were done with one or both feet barefoot.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.

The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was a rock climber.

I know I'm not a cutting-edge free climber. Free soloing, I'm comfortable to 5.10-plus or 5.11a. But if I was a grade higher I could do some amazing things.

I love the beach and rock climbing and boxing and nature, so I like to stay away from my phone as much as possible.

We are apes - we should be climbing.

Climbing is what I do.

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

I grew up rock climbing.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

For me, fighting is just so fun; I love it. It's just what I enjoy doing, and for me to go out there and go wake boarding and go rock climbing and then turn around and go fight, how awesome is that?

I'm always climbing.

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

I was born into a climbing family.

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.

Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

I've never tried to be the leader. All I focus on is climbing.