"A first ascent is a creation in the……" — Royal Robbins
"A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song"
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15 Quotes by Royal Robbins
Royal Robbins has 15 quotes on this site.
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The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate…
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A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
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Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come…
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I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there…
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Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it…
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When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on…
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The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were…
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Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in…
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I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could…
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Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and…
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With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
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Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
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The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It…
— Walter Bonatti
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As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my…
— David Steindl-Rast
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very…
— Thomas Adams
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits…
— Mark Twain
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses…
— Francis Bacon
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,…
— Virginia Woolf
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In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very…
— Lucy Irvine
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