Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain. — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was, — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future. — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.” — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
“In climbing, there was always a fraction of a second between the security of being locked in and the freedom of an… — Paul Aertker Copy Share Image
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
In climbing, being first-rate is part of the whole enterprise. The important climbers want to be the first man up the mountain,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty feet up in the air… — Stephen Costello Copy Share Image
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
Any struggle or pain that you experience just gets you to the top, and you can't get there without making the climb.… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I can see the time coming when I won't need to be out there in the upper pyramid of climbing, but the… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
The only possibility to have a knowledge of both the Earth's nature and our own internal nature is through traditional climbing when… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“...just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The truth is that I've never cared anything about sports. In PE, I do my best to get hit with the dodgeball… — Natalie Lloyd Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the… — Bree Loewen Copy Share Image
