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Climbing Quotes by Wojciech Kurtyka
- 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…
- Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
- I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
- I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
- I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.
- 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…
- 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…
- Beauty is the door to another world...
- Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.
- Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them…
- Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.
- Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means…
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- Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie
- There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and… — Winston Churchill
- To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a… — Maya Angelou
- Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there… — Yvon Chouinard
- We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild… — Yvon Chouinard
- I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the… — Edwin Way Teale
- I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo. — Unknown Author