The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. — Cassandra Clare 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
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka 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
I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“climbing a mountain represents a chance to be briefly free oneself of the small concerns of our common lives, to strip off… — Mateo Cabello Copy Share Image
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It… — Alan Hinkes Copy Share Image
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the… — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from,… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly 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
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late. — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington 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
What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you — Wanda Rutkiewicz 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
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs. — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
