265 Quotes About Climbing

As people get older, they lose interest in mountain climbing or skiing.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because the nation's inventories of gasoline have declined in recent weeks.

Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection.

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

If you're climbing big routes that'll take you 16 hours, or, like, El Capitan, you have to take something like a big, robust sandwich. Climbing isn't like running or triathlons, where you have to constantly be eating blocks, gels, and pure sugar. Climbing is relatively slow, so you can pretty much eat anything and digest it as you climb.

People were tripping over each other, climbing over the seats to get to the exit.

You climb for the hell of it.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.