Failure Quote by Jeff Lowe

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

Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very…

— Jon Krakauer

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

— Anonymous

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

— Neil Gaiman

Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

— Gaston Rebuffat

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition…

— Bear Grylls

Climbing is never going to be 100% safe, but the climbing I do with work is done under much stricter guidelines than the climbing…

— Steve Backshall

In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the…

— Al Alvarez

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building…

— Edmund Hillary

Being willing to risk it all for any given climb will inevitably end at some point in disaster.

— Jeff Lowe