Climbing Quotes - Page 3

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

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.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had found the albums direction. It is our most distinctive album to date, combining all our different tastes and styles into one.

The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

A man doesn't go to drink coffee after climbing, coffee is integral part of the climbing.

L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

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

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when they are taking off, or when they are climbing, or when they are forming up. Don't think you can defend the bomber by circling around him. It's good for the bombers morale, and bad for tactics.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.