Climbers Quotes

Climbers Quote of the day

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

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.

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.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

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

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

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.

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.

Climbers have no sense of smell.

There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones.

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

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

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

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.

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.

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

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

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.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

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

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

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.