44 Quotes by Jeff Lowe

The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It’s only distracting you.

If you’re concentrating on climbing, you can’t be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.

My awareness left my body and ego, and went on a grand tour of the cosmos.

I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable than rock.

It went way beyond just sex with Catherine. It was more like recognizing a time of shared destiny of our souls. We were both born to climb, and we each glimpsed the possibility of the perfect partner in the other.

I still value the adventurous side, confronting the mountain on its terms, more than I value actual success in terms of getting to the top. That has very little meaning to me.

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.

Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way.