Climbing Quotes - Page 30

• Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can’t see where you’ve come from or where you’re going.

  Syd Field

  Writing, Rocks, Mountain

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• I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

  Edmund Hillary

  Safe, Danger, Hated

  "Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88" by Robert D. McFadden, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2008.

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• I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Names, People

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• 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.

  Maurice Herzog

  Life And Death, Mountain, Fields

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.400, Open Road Media

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Miserable

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• Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

  Stewart Francis

  Sex, Rocks, Receiving

  Stewart Francis (2013). “Pun Direction”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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• In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

  Leo Houlding

  Dirty, Style, Culture

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• You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sex, Safe, Remember

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• 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.

  Ron Kauk

  Pressure, Sponsors, Climbs

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• At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

  Doug Scott

  Self, Ordinary, Steps

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• Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.

  Doug Scott

  Real, World, Able

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• Climbing is this long term, lifelong journey. It's really important to just take your time with it and keep it fun. I've seen a lot of people burn out because it starts becoming this job for them. It stops being fun. For me, it's been really important to keep it enjoyable. Listen to your motivation.

  Chris Sharma

  Jobs, Fun, Motivation

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• If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.

  Lionel Terray

  Mountain Peaks, Goal, Joy

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• I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On my next try I climbed with no thought of failure and reached the top. We cannot know what we can do in advance. The only way to find out is to go all-out trying, thinking only of success.

  Royal Robbins

  Letting Go, Thinking, Eight

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• For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there are no distractions or expectations. This intuitive state of being is what allows me to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.

  Lynn Hill

  Mean, Expectations, Inspire

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• Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

  Hermann Buhl

  Drug, Feelings, Natural

  Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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• Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Passion, Past

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• Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

  Ron Kauk

  Responsibility, Reflection, Individual

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• I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

  Walter Bonatti

  Fate, Accepting, Incapable

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• I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

  John Bachar

  Body, Matter, Accepting

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• We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

  Galen Rowell

  Feelings, Too Late, Scene

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• Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being

  Jim Perrin

  Loss, Men, Sorrow

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• Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

  Sally Quinn

  Running, Two, People

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• On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
  Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
  Toiling and climbing to the very close,
  The weary Body, longing for repose,
  On the gained level of the day's ascent,
  Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

  Abraham Coles

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

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