Climbers Quote by Steve House

Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have…

— Steve House

While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is…

— L. Jon Wertheim

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

— Steve House

In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their event. The…

— Steve House

Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often…

— Steve House

“The two climbers looked at each other, a glance that bored all the way down to Medvetz's DNA - not desperate or pleading or…

— Nick Heil

Climbers have no sense of smell.

— Conrad Anker

In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on…

— Clark Ashton Smith

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

— Will Hobbs

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

— Henry Rollins

There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones.

— Don Whillans

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

— Stacy Allison