Royal Robbins Quotes

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• The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate…
• A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
• Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be…
• I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But…
• Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give…
• When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And…
• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who…
• Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
• I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On…
• Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to…
• With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
• Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.
• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to…
• A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

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