Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing. — Michael Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not. — Leo Houlding Copy Share Image
Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins. — Saku Koivu Copy Share Image
Britain has some of the finest climbing on the planet, with a sense of wilderness that rivals anywhere else on earth. You… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Erick had underestimated the distance, both to the ground and the cliff above me, yet the texture of the cliff wall was… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to… — Vienna Teng 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
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
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
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening. — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment. — Jim Bridwell Copy Share Image
Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future. — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“Don't stop climbing once you've made it your highest peak. You still have the heavens to reach.” — Salyna G Copy Share Image
It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking. — Richard C. Miller Copy Share Image
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
