Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking. — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Sometimes you got to get knocked down, but there's a lot more satisfaction climbing the ladder again when you've been knocked off. — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.” — Sheba Karim Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Diversity is climbing’s greatest strength. There’s no way to get bored! Each game is so difficult, most people spend their lives trying… — Chris Noble Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would… — Stirling Moss Copy Share Image
I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience. — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and… — Robert MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Climbing up becomes easier when someone at the top decides to give you a helping hand. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to… — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the… — Jared Isaacman 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
Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
