Inspirational Mountain Climbing Quotes - Page 2

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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The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

Yvon Chouinard

Climbing, Scary, Colorado

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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Paul Theroux

Funny, Climbing, Mountain

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

Anatoli Boukreev

Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.

Dan Osman

Pain, Climbing, Causes

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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

John Muir

Garden, Hiking, Yellowstone

John Muir (2015). “THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring”, p.188, e-artnow

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Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

Gaston Rebuffat

Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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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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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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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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Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

Eric Shipton

Climbing, Able, Mountaineering

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When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

Pat Ament

Beautiful, Climbing, Play

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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

Wilfrid Noyce

Ocean, Adventure, Men

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On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

Lionel Terray

Beautiful, Men, Climbing

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The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.

Walter Bonatti

Men, Climbing, Soul

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Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

John Muir

Men, Hiking, Climbing

John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.276, e-artnow

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If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Doug Scott

Funny, Climbing, Want

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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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Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Paul D. Boyer

Hiking, Long, Mountain

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Theodore Roethke

Failure, Adversity, Wrestling

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The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

William Arthur Ward

Climbing, Risk, Suffering

William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Ed Viesturs

Sports, Nature, Travel

Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2011). “The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak”, p.87, Crown

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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir

Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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