Top 62 Quotes About Climbers

#1. I knew those fuckers were smarter than they appeared. Dammit, first they're runners, now they're climbers. They're breaking all the fucking zombie rules! Juan looked personally insulted by this development.

Rhiannon Frater

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#2. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic

Gavin De Becker

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#3. 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.

Lincoln Hall

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#4. Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.

Bear Grylls

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#5. Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.

Charles Duhigg

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

Warren G. Harding

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

Greg Child

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#8. How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

Hanshan

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

Henry Rollins

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#10. Climbers have no sense of smell.

Conrad Anker

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#11. 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

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#12. Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Jonathan Waterman

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#13. There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Phil McGraw

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#14. We want climbers to be extremely fit, but we also want you to understand how strength works in climbing and to use training methods that closely resemble the performance demands required by the routes you select.
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Dan Hague

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#15. Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics ...

Steve Roper

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

Pat Ament

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#17. There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!

Ivana Trump

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#18. La Griffe, "The Claw." Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters.

David Morrell

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#19. 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.

Jim Wickwire

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

Robert Falcon Scott

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#21. 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

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#22. Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.

Craig Lambert

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#23. What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

Josh Gates

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#24. Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Elbert Hubbard

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#25. 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.
Page No. 31, Freedom Climbers

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#26. I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.

Anatoli Boukreev

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

Don Whillans

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#28. Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.

Alex Honnold

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#29. 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

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#30. I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

Will Hobbs

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#31. Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

Maureen Corrigan

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#32. Mountain climbers think of the mountain not of the danger.

Marty Rubin

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

Gerhard E Frost

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#34. 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.

Wanda Rutkiewicz

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#35. We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death - the fear of not reaching the top.

Mike Mullane

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#36. I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.

Anatoli Boukreev

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#37. 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.

Edmund Hillary

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#38. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Robert Greene

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#39. I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

Terry Pratchett

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

Felix Baumgartner

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#41. Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)

Stephen Bezruchka

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

Chris Sharma

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#43. Dad used to say, "Death is a part of it all." I say it's the ugly part. But it's why I'm here, why Eiger climbers come. We come because they died, and by dying they created this legend, and we want to be a part of the legend, without dying.

John Harlin

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

Stacy Allison

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

Jon Krakauer

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#46. They're so rich and revered that they have neither electricity nor running water. Only social climbers have a sauna and a Jacuzzi.

Jo Nesbo

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

Mark Twain

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

Bernadette McDonald

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#49. They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.

Fernando Lachica

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#50. That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Yann Martel

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

Wanda Rutkiewicz

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#52. The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.

Yvon Chouinard

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#53. There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Alex Lowe

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#54. I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Jason Mraz

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#55. 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

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#56. My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

Galen Rowell

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

Steve House

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#58. 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.

Edmund Hillary

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#59. 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

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#60. The ability to forge a unique path with occasional dips, detours, and even dead ends presents a better chance for fulfillment. Plus, a jungle gym provides great views for many people, not just those at the top. On a ladder, most climbers are stuck staring at the butt of the person above.

Sheryl Sandberg

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#61. 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

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#62. 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

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