Quotes About Climbing

There is a certain way of climbing inside of time that gives a man ownership of the world and everything in it. Like, for instance, when you hear a jukebox it plays only what you need to hear.

I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

You might need a little more nuance in personal relationships. Climbing the work ladder is different from climbing the social ladder.

I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life.

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

There's only a handful of chicks in the world who can climb big walls on my level.

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Traditional alpinism is slowly disappearing. It is becoming sport, indoors on small walls with holds where you cannot really fall.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

In a general sense, I think it's bad to bring too much money into climbing, since it takes away a little from the beauty of the mountains. But at the same time, I can't blame the Nepali government - or the Indian, Pakistani or Chinese, depending on where you're climbing - from wanting to capitalize on foreign climbers.

I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

I knew that there would be climbers around me who would reach the summit faster. I was warned not to be hasty.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Experience is the best antidote for fear. An inexperienced climber doesn't know whether to trust a tiny foothold the size of a penny, but it can feel as safe as a carpeted hallway to an experienced climber.