Awareness Quote by Dean Potter

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

Climbing for me is about being free. It's just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with nature.

— Dean Potter

For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing…

— Lynn Hill

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

— Alex Lowe

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

— Doug Scott

When you don't have certain senses your other senses become heightened.

— Fredric Brandt

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.

— Adam Ondra

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

— Eric Betzig

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

— Hussein Chalayan

The only possibility to have a knowledge of both the Earth's nature and our own internal nature is through traditional climbing when you go…

— Reinhold Messner

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need…

— Roger Housden