"L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps……" — Gaston Rebuffat
"L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient."
More Climbing Quotes
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and… — Roger Bannister
- Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done… — 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… — Joe Biden
- For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to… — 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… — Winston Churchill
- To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors… — Maya Angelou
- Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit… — Yvon Chouinard
- We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like… — Yvon Chouinard
- I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart… — Edwin Way Teale
- I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo. — Bradford Washburn