Jeff Lowe

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

— Jeff Lowe

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything…

— Jeff Lowe

I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that…

— Jeff Lowe

Mom would pack our lunch and send us off with no supervision. There were enough of us so that if she lost…

— Jeff Lowe

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.

— Jeff Lowe

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

The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.

— Jeff Lowe

I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.

— Jeff Lowe

If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when…

— Jeff Lowe

I'm not a big adrenaline junkie.

— Jeff Lowe

You can base your life in fear or you can base your life in love. Fear leads to negative results even in…

— Jeff Lowe

Wall climbing is an offshoot of the more traditional sport of mountain climbing. It is very difficult; one must combine a great…

— Jeff Lowe

I was great at testing products at 20,000 feet, but talking them up to buyers? No, not really.

— Jeff Lowe

I can see the time coming when I won't need to be out there in the upper pyramid of climbing, but the…

— Jeff Lowe

Hunters get lost all the time. There's just an outcry against climbers because a lot of people don't understand climbers and they…

— Jeff Lowe

You have to have a lot of experience and confidence and a willingness to go down when things aren't right and try…

— Jeff Lowe

For me, one of the attractions simply is the variety of interests that climbing serves. In the Himalayas, it's the traveling, the…

— Jeff Lowe

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

— Jeff Lowe

I never did end up getting any skills that are marketable in a traditional sense, but I have used my knowledge of…

— Jeff Lowe

I think I know now that you can't do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You're not a practicing…

— Jeff Lowe

I could have saved my marriage if I had chosen to. But when I was forced to take a new look, I…

— Jeff Lowe

The challenges of adventure, rock climbing and alpinism trained me well for dealing with the slow neurodegenerative malady I'm experiencing.

— Jeff Lowe

For me there's no future. All I'm interested in is now.

— Jeff Lowe

The idea of metanoia returns again and again in my life. The purpose of life is to see what you do when…

— Jeff Lowe

I've chosen to live my life in love and that has made even the most trying times beautiful experiences.

— Jeff Lowe