Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb. — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion… — Todd Skinner Copy Share Image
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves. — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries.… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty of mountain climbing, Jack thought. It strips away the ego. You can’t tell the true measure of a human… — Kevin Tinto Copy Share Image
I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you've become. Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie.… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from… — Wilfrid Noyce Copy Share Image
Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I’ve heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I’d experience it, let alone like that,” she murmured, her mouth curling… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
