Bears Quote by Erik Weihenmayer

The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over…

— Mark Cavendish

Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.

— Fred Nicole

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

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as…

— Reinhold Messner

that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six…

— Stacy Allison

There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece.…

— George Foreman

Climbing is what I do.

— Anatoli Boukreev

If you don't have to worry about socializing because you don't like it, you can more fully immerse yourself in climbing.

— Tommy Caldwell

Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it…

— Louise Erdrich

I'm always climbing.

— Tommy Caldwell

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's…

— Ron Kauk

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