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It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.Collection: Climbing
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.Collection: Climbing
What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.Collection: Climbing
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.Collection: Climbing
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.Collection: Climbing
Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.Collection: Climbing
Frostbite? I consider that a failure.Collection: Climbing
A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.Collection: Climbing
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.Collection: Climbing
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.Collection: Climbing
Only through suffering can we find ourselves.Collection: Climbing
There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.Collection: Climbing
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.Collection: Climbing
C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.Collection: Climbing
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.Collection: Climbing
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.Collection: Climbing
Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.Collection: Climbing
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.Collection: Climbing
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.Collection: Climbing
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.Collection: Climbing
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.Collection: Climbing
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.Collection: Climbing
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.Collection: Climbing
John Wayne never wore Lycra.Collection: Climbing
When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.Collection: Climbing
Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbingCollection: Climbing
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.Collection: Climbing
Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.Collection: Climbing
I was quaking in my boots.Collection: Climbing
When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.Collection: Climbing
A la Verte on devient montagnard.Collection: Climbing
If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.Collection: Climbing
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.Collection: Climbing
Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?Collection: Climbing
Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.Collection: Climbing
Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.Collection: Climbing
Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.Collection: Climbing
In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them.Collection: Climbing
I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.Collection: Climbing
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.Collection: Climbing
Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.Collection: Climbing
What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind youCollection: Climbing
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.Collection: Climbing
I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.Collection: Climbing
Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.Collection: Climbing
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary livesCollection: Climbing
The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everythingCollection: Climbing