You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there. — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over. — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
As a Nepali, I hope my climbs put a spotlight on the talented climbers here. — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy. — Natalie Dormer 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
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. — William Arthur Ward 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
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due… — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures… — Jim Wickwire Copy Share Image
I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs… — Yvon Chouinard 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
Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As… — Clark Ashton Smith 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
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven… — John Edensor Littlewood 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
Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a… — Alison Levine Copy Share Image
“Beidleman knew they were on the eastern, Tibetan side of the Col and that the tents lay somewhere to the west. But… — 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
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 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
In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their… — Steve House 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
“Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud; The Realist groans: "All life is mud ans slime!" Men lie and steal… — Berton Braley 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