Best Climbing Qoutes
597 Climbing quotes by 400 unique authors
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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
— James Joyce
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What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you
— Wanda Rutkiewicz
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In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.
— Doug Scott
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To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
— Alain Robert
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Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory,…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't…
— Wanda Rutkiewicz
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I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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We'll climb with you and steal your women.
— Todd Skinner
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Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball,…
— Beverly Johnson
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I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
— Reinhold Messner
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I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.
— Wanda Rutkiewicz
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Climbing is what I do.
— Anatoli Boukreev
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For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was always something that…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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