When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.' 'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….” — Grace Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out… — Jim Bridwell Copy Share Image
In climbing, if you injure just one finger you can't do it. But with slacklining as long as you can walk, you… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It… — Alan Hinkes Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you have to fall from the mountain to realize what you are climbing for. Obstacles were put in our way to… — Mhargs Abuda Copy Share Image
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared… — Edward Whymper Copy Share Image
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the… — N.D. Wilson 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
Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist… — Steve House 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
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
