I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
I also know for a fact of at least two other ascents of the Delicate Arch. But when 'Outside' did their research,… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We… — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep… — Lincoln Hall Copy Share Image
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success.… — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“More climbers die during the descent than on the way up.” Karakaredes seems to be considering this. After a minute he says,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important. — Steve House Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain,… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
Hunters get lost all the time. There's just an outcry against climbers because a lot of people don't understand climbers and they… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures… — Jim Wickwire Copy Share Image
There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due… — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just… — Jim Whittaker Copy Share Image
What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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