I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture. — Warren G. Harding 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
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 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
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
Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important. — Steve House 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
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside… — Wojciech Kurtyka 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
Hunters get lost all the time. There's just an outcry against climbers because a lot of people don't understand climbers and they… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain,… — Phil McGraw 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
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
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“More climbers die during the descent than on the way up.” Karakaredes seems to be considering this. After a minute he says,… — Dan Simmons 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
Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling… — Yvon Chouinard 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
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports. — Steve House 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
“WE ARE NOT AT OUR BEST PERCHED AT THE SUMMIT; WE ARE CLIMBERS, AT OUR BEST WHEN THE WAY IS STEEP.” — Tyndale Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains. — Felix Baumgartner 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
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
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
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor,… — Yvon Chouinard 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
I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
