Quotes About Climbing

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

A great climb is a wonderful mixture of difficulty and intimacy.

By now, a significant portion of the whole Sherpa economy depends on the spring and fall seasons on Everest.

Giovanotto è inutile che si arrampichi... qui è tutta pianura.

So what if I cannot be a model, if I am no longer considered beautiful, if Malvolia is trying to catch me. I am climbing a tree! And I am doing so with Jack.

I've been a really big fan of climbing. I really got into it when I watched the show 'Beyond the Limit' about climbing Mount Everest.

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

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.

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.

The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special.

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.

We are apes - we should be climbing.

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as tough as it is, I get so much more out of it. It's like climbing Mt. Everest.