Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports. — Steve House 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
There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and… — Eric Jay Beck Copy Share Image
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We… — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the… — Richard Virenque Copy Share Image
What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers,… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just… — Jim Whittaker Copy Share Image
The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home. — Gerhard E Frost Copy Share Image
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity.… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
