Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed. — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late. — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding."… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport.… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“As Annabeth hung in the air, descending hand over hand with the ladder swinging wildly, she thanked Chiron for all those years… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and… — Robert MacFarlane 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
