Mountain Climbing Quotes - Page 4

• You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!

  Don Whillans

  Thinking, Climbing, Guy

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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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• I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Film, Mountain Climbers

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• 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.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Important, Toes

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• There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

  Mark Twain

  Climbing, People, Alps

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.246, Xist Publishing

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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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• Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Integrity, Climbing, Hiking

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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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• 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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• By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Men, Profound, Mountain

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Mountains Of The Mind”, p.275, Granta

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

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Work, Climbing

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• 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.

  Jim Wickwire

  Funny, Climbing, People

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

  Charlie Fowler

  Funny, Climbing, Skills

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Sports, Real

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Want, Trekking

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• Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sports, Athlete, Climbing

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• There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

  Richard R. Nelson

  Motivational, Climbing, Hiking

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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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• I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Caps

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• The mountains were there and so was I.

  Maurice Herzog

  Hiking, Mountain

  1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Hiking, Mountain, Lost

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