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Pat Ament Quotes

When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way.

When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

Beautiful, Climbing, Play

Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

Fall, Rocks, Climbing

Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

Climbing, Ideas, Would Be

What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.

Strong, Sight, Climbing

Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

Climbing, Brain, Mind

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

Climbing, Piano, Effort

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