Climbing Quotes - Page 32

• In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

  Jon Krakauer

  Team, Action, Welfare

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Technology, Thinking, Games

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• Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Mountain

  "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.

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• There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

  Karyn Kusama

  Goal, Mountain, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

  Lynn Hill

  Rocks, Years, Thirty

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Class, Purple

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

  Fred Nicole

  Thinking, Doubt, Barometer

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• If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Hiking, Failing

  Lines after Sir Walter Ralegh, written on a window-pane: Thomas Fuller 'Worthies of England' vol. 1, p. 419.

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• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Hiking, Mountain, Summit

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

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• I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

  Leslie Stephen

  Believe, Men, Mountain Peaks

  Leslie Stephen (2013). “The Playground of Europe”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Practice, Hiking

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• The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Deep Love, Risk

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• - Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Want, Trekking, Everest

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• The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Risk, Mountain, Doe

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• I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

  Creed Bratton

  Mom, Fall, Kids

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• I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

  Eddie Izzard

  Running, Jumping, Tree

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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 But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

  Edmund Hillary

  Believe, Building Up, Giving

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

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• Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thinking, Goal

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.155, Bantam

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• The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

  Jules Michelet

  Real, Effort, Climbs

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• A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

  Patrick Modiano

  Men, Scenery

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• The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, One Day

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• There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Summit

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