Adventurous Quote by Kate Adie

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty…

— Edmund Hillary

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

— Robin Day

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I was very scared of heights and water.

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I'm awful at skiing, made slow and hesitant by an unyielding and morbid fear that I will propel into a tree or somehow shatter…

— Cord Jefferson

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park -…

— Aron Ralston

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

— Susan Hill

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up peaks by…

— Steve Backshall

I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked…

— Ivor Cutler

I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity…

— Lincoln Hall