Quotes About Climbing

So did I hear right?" he said. "Race to the top? Winner gets a kiss?" "Maya's done seven climbs in a row," Daniel said. "You can race me." "But I don't want to kiss you.

After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool.

I stayed up there for about ten minutes, straining for any sign of light, even the flicker of headlights on a distant road. Then I climbed back down. "It's dark," I said, after I leaped to the ground. "Um, yeah," Sam said. "It's night. How the hell you expected to see anything--" She stopped as she realized what I was really saying. "Oh.

So did I hear right?" he said. "Race to the top? Winner gets a kiss?" "Maya's done seven climbs in a row," Daniel said. "You can race me." "But I don't want to kiss you ." Everyone laughed. Everyone except Daniel.

I didn't even notice I'd caught up until I was right beside him and he was leaning around the tree, smiling at me. "Gotcha," I said. "Uh, no. I stopped." He waved overhead and I realized we were as high as we could safely go. "Damn," I said.

A jerk on my harness made me look up sharply as Daniel adjusted the rope, preparing to let me belay down. The look on his face told me who'd won. "Damn," I said. "Seriously?" "By a fingertip," Rafe said. "You need to grow longer arms.

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

'Tis a common proof,That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;But when he once attains the upmost round,He then unto the ladder turns his back,Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degreesBy which he did ascend.

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.

Mysteries are for solving, walls are for climbing, secret hideouts are for exploring. That's just how things are.

La Griffe, "The Claw." Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters. Designed by Fredric Perrin, manufactured by Ernest Emerson. (Emersonknoves.com)

I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle.

But as we climbed back up, I had a moment of vertigo despite being in such an enclosed space, a kind of panic for a moment, in which the walls suddenly had a fleshy aspect to them, as if we traveled inside of the gullet of a beast.

Trying not to think about falling, she kept going up.

I was head of the Cold Weather Warfare unit within the Special Boat Service. My job was to do extreme climbs, learn about new technology, and create new ideas on how to operate in those conditions.

Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

I genuinely feel like, when people climb K2, it's everywhere in the news, everybody covers it.

If you compare the number of people who climb Everest to the number who climb Mt. Blanc, it is like only 2 percent. But people don't talk about how crowded Mt. Blanc is.

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

As a Nepali, I hope my climbs put a spotlight on the talented climbers here.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.