Climbers Quotes - Page 3

• I see myself as a climber and an activist.

  Alain Robert

  Activist

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• The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

  Lincoln Hall

  Wisdom, Heart, Adventure

  Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.239, Penguin

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• Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

  Pat Ament

  Fall, Rocks, Climbing

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

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Climbing

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• Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

  Steve House

  Climbing, Feelings, Important

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• First of all, who's your A&R?
  A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
  But he don't know the meaning of dope,
  When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
  That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
  And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
  Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

  GZA

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• 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, Climbing, Action

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

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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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• Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Enthusiasm, Dignity, Hills

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

  John Burroughs

  Practice, People, Mass

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.48, Syracuse University Press

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• I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

  Bear Grylls

  Careers, Soldier, Tvs

  Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.

  Zeina

  Believe, Ocean, Sea

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• Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.

  Dan Jenkins

  Song, Writing, Talking

  Dan Jenkins (2010). “Baja Oklahoma”, p.26, Texas A&M University Press

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• I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Home, Air, Sea

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• Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Responsibility, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know what they're doing.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  People, Common, Climbs

  Source: www.summitdaily.com

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• Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

  Jimmy Chin

  Climbing, Interesting, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Beautiful, Beach, Rocks

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• Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.

  Stacy Allison

  Believe, Trying, Mountain

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• The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Home, Together, Mountain

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• You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.

  Richard Virenque

  Pain, Suffering, Different

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• Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.

  Chris Sharma

  Running, Yoga, Athlete

  Source: espn.go.com

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• For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

  Roland Smith

  Stopping, Mountain Climbing, Everest

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• When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

  John McPhee

  Ocean, Moving, Writing

  "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

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• People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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