When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous. — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills. — Eminem 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
The moment you start giving up thats the end of your life... Life is beautiful and worthfull when we start climbing the… — Steven Hmangte Copy Share Image
The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
Champions never reach the top of the mountain. They just continue climbing despite any limitations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think! — Don Whillans 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
Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of… — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb,… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
“It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“My grandmother caught me climbing the highest tree in her yard, the one we were all forbidden to attempt. All five feet… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Just when the mountain looks too high, the obstacles too great between you and your goals you suddenly see The beautiful blue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there… — Matthew Henson Copy Share Image
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
“I wonder how often I ended up on the short-end of the stick because I was climbing the wrong tree.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I… — Ron Kauk Copy Share Image
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs. — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
