Climbing Quotes - Page 15

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.

Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?

I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.

C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

Climbing is what I do.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.