Erik Weihenmayer Quotes

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

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.

You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.