In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.” — Whipplesnaith Copy Share Image
Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain. — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's… — Susan Dunlap Copy Share Image
There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way. — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become… — John R Noe Copy Share Image
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable,… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we… — Thelma Wells Copy Share Image
We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how… — William Law Copy Share Image
There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of… — Gail Mazur Copy Share Image
Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Life is made of two parts, the good and the bad, but you can only look at it in one piece where… — N.N. Porchezhiyan Copy Share Image
“The curse of climbing is discovering how great the distance yet to climb.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“In addiction, just like climbing, you can’t fall off if you don’t let go.” — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
