Each fresh peak ascended teaches something. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb. — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion… — Todd Skinner Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of… — Stephen Covey 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
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back… — Greg Child Copy Share Image
For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit; only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“If you're feeling like life is hard and you keep climbing the rough side of the mountain, remember this: the rough side… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really… — Natalie Grant Copy Share Image
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything. — Catherine Destivelle Copy Share Image
