I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
“WE ARE NOT AT OUR BEST PERCHED AT THE SUMMIT; WE ARE CLIMBERS, AT OUR BEST WHEN THE WAY IS STEEP.” — Tyndale Copy Share Image
The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports. — Steve House Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“It's not uncommon for dead climbers on mountains to become important land marks in the trek up the mountain for the next… — Mitch Wilson Copy Share Image
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will Scarlet, Wanderin’ Wind, Golden Wings,” — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people… — Jim Wickwire Copy Share Image
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers,… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
The best climbers no longer go to the 8000ers, but to the most difficult mountains in the world which are 6000 or… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the… — Emma Pooley Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance.… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands...… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation.… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
“Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud; The Realist groans: "All life is mud ans slime!" Men lie and steal… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist… — Steve House Copy Share Image
“The two climbers looked at each other, a glance that bored all the way down to Medvetz's DNA - not desperate or… — Nick Heil Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their… — Steve House Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity.… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“Beidleman knew they were on the eastern, Tibetan side of the Col and that the tents lay somewhere to the west. But… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
