Climbing Quotes - Page 25

• Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Ribs, Hot

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin

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• A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Religion, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Hatred, May

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Rivers

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• The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Play, Risk, Encounters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.276, Penguin UK

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• Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Priorities In Life, Helping, Corny

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• If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

  Walter Bonatti

  Skills, Normal, Spirit

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• The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.

  Greg Child

  Years, Two, Knowing

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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

  Movement, Problem, Figures

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Boxing, Cassius

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• I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Dream, Mountain, Eyelids

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• Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Self, Evil, Mind

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• The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Ego, Feelings, Dimensions

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• Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Self, Ordinary, Doe

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• Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Fall, Stupidity, Praying

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• I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Art, Suffering, Limits

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• I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Roles, Suitable

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• For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of ​​transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Ideas, Imagination

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• I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

  Steve Fossett

  Risk, Himalayas, Expeditions

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• Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Trying, Stronger, Transformation

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• Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power.

  Lynn Hill

  Men, Focus, Doe

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• I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

  Kelly Preston

  Twenties, Three, Noses

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• Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

  John Bachar

  Values

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• My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

  Reinhold Messner

  Doe, Increase, Raised

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• In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

  Doug Scott

  Writing, Mean, Order

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