Climbers Quotes · Page 2

The Slovenians are the very best climbers in the world.

— Reinhold Messner

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

— Billy Connolly

I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

— Fred Nicole

“WE ARE NOT AT OUR BEST PERCHED AT THE SUMMIT; WE ARE CLIMBERS, AT OUR BEST WHEN THE WAY IS STEEP.”

— Tyndale

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

— Reinhold Messner

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

— Will Hobbs

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

— Gerhard E Frost

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

— Arunima Sinha

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

— Henry Rollins

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

— Roland Smith

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

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

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit…

— Edmund Hillary

“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

My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better…

— Royal Robbins

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests…

— Aldous Huxley

“Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will Scarlet, Wanderin’ Wind, Golden Wings,”

— Maggie Oster

Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We…

— Steve Roper

I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I…

— Chris Sharma

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was…

— Richard Engel

But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness…

— William Croswell Doane

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one…

— Terry Pratchett

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a…

— Dean Potter

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And…

— Ethel Smyth

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

— Bear Grylls

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

— Warren G. Harding

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

— William Arthur Ward

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

— Jonathan Waterman

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

— Jon Krakauer

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

— Chris Sharma

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

— Nirmal Purja

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

— Natalie Dormer

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like…

— Stacy Allison

You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there.

— Ian Ziering

Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them…

— Reinhold Messner

Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing…

— Alex Pettyfer

Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who…

— Pat Ament

I also know for a fact of at least two other ascents of the Delicate Arch. But when 'Outside' did their research,…

— Dean Potter