Believe Quote by Wojciech Kurtyka

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

Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock…

— Charles Duhigg

Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

— Greyson Chance

“Despite the dangers and discomforts, climbing is for many an all-consuming passion. They interrupt, end, or never start their careers, focusing exclusively on completing…

— Bob Madgic

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop…

— Hermann Buhl

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

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

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

— Jim Bridwell

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity,…

— Jon Krakauer

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but…

— Reinhold Messner

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight…

— Reinhold Messner