Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire. — Reinhold Messner 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
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
I knew that there would be climbers around me who would reach the summit faster. I was warned not to be hasty. — Arunima Sinha 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
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
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
Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber. — Greg Gutfeld 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
I also know for a fact of at least two other ascents of the Delicate Arch. But when 'Outside' did their research,… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing… — Alex Pettyfer 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
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
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
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
“Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will” — Maggie Oster 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
I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,… — GZA Copy Share Image
Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every… — Stacy Allison 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
I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
