Classic Quote by Yvon Chouinard

Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss…

— Doug Scott

Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now…

— Yvon Chouinard

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us…

— Royal Robbins

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

— Steve House

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

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

— Alex Lowe

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

— Jules Michelet

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

— Alex Lowe

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

— Chris Sharma

Climbing is an understated culture.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks…

— Allen Steck

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

— Adam Ondra