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Climbing Quotes by Yvon Chouinard
- Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.…
- We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in…
- The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise…
- The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was…
- The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
- Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies…
- The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
- Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes…
- Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently…
- The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an…
- During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those…
- Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac...
- We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos…
- I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what…
- I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous…
- Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in…
- You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
More Climbing Quotes
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey
- Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
- In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,… — Joe Biden
- For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli
- 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