I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts. — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people… — Jim Wickwire Copy Share Image
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates… — William Croswell Doane Copy Share Image
In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance.… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation.… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness… — William Croswell Doane Copy Share Image
Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean?… — Zeina Copy Share Image
“The two climbers looked at each other, a glance that bored all the way down to Medvetz's DNA - not desperate or… — Nick Heil Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God. — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will” — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep… — Lincoln Hall Copy Share Image
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success.… — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
