Climbing Quote by Greg Mortenson

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

— Edward Abbey

Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

— H. G. Wells

“I’m giddy and trying not to be. This is more difficult than you’d imagine. Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.”

— Nicola Yoon

What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to…

— Brian Cody

The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for…

— Royal Robbins

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

— Al Neuharth

“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the…

— Jon Krakauer

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

— Gaston Rebuffat

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Placing my buttocks on a cold toilet seat is my climbing Mount Everest.

— Anonymous

Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction…

— Wojciech Kurtyka