Important Quote by Reinhold Messner

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two…

— Ueli Steck

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

— Gayle Forman

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

— Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes I spent more time planning a climb than doing it.

— Jeff Lowe

Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.

— Adam Ondra

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

— Doug Scott

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

— Alex Lowe

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the…

— Steve Fossett

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

— Mark Twight

The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.

— Yvon Chouinard

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

— Tommy Caldwell

Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end…

— Chris Sharma