- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
“In addiction, just like climbing, you can’t fall off if you don’t let go.” — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and… — Flume Copy Share Image
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler Copy Share Image
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too… — Tom Hornbein Copy Share Image
Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We… — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general… — Raha Moharrak Copy Share Image
The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social… — David Breashears Copy Share Image
Climbing a big wall over several days is like running a giant construction project: constantly making lists, rigging ropes, organising food, figuring… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that… — Enzo Ferrari Copy Share Image
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are… — Lisa Morgan Copy Share Image
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it… — Adrian Ballinger Copy Share Image
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I… — Ray Park Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain. — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
“The curse of climbing is discovering how great the distance yet to climb.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
