Climbs Quotes - Page 6

• No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Faith, Mountain, Matter

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Work, Climbing

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Work, Climbing

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• 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.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Climbing, Long

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• John Wayne never wore Lycra.

  Ron Kauk

  Climbing, Wayne, Mountaineering

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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

  Climbing, Life And Death, Mountain

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

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• To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

  Aristotle

  Climbing, Insanity, Anarchy

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• My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Men, Climbing, Self

  "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".

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• In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

  Edward Abbey

  Rocks, Climbing, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Standards Set

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Useless

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• Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Climbing, Growth

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• What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.

  Pat Ament

  Strong, Sight, Climbing

  Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”

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• Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

  Doug Scott

  Climbing, Mountaineering, Lad

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• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• 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.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Climbing, Movement, Problem

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• 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'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Climbing, Feet

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

  Reinhold Messner

  Climbing, Impossible, Murder

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

  Don Whillans

  Climbing, Males, Female

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• If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

  Greg Child

  Children, Climbing, Poor

  Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.158, Mountaineers Books

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• 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.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Giving, Smoking

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books

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• You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

  Willi Unsoeld

  Nature, Travel, Sight

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain Climbers

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