There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones.

“The two climbers looked at each other, a glance that bored all the way down to Medvetz's DNA - not desperate or pleading or…

— Nick Heil

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

— Henry Rollins

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

— Will Hobbs

In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on…

— Clark Ashton Smith

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking…

— Dan Jenkins

Climbers have no sense of smell.

— Conrad Anker

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor…

— Pope Pius XI

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

— Stacy Allison

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place…

— Richard Engel

Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not…

— Reinhold Messner

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by…

— Ethel Smyth

Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks…

— Allen Steck

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and…

— Yvon Chouinard

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

— Edmund Hillary