265 Quotes About Climbing

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

Instead of guiding up other people, they are climbing for science. This year, there's going to be a tremendous gush of data coming off the mountain.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

These are the games you have to win. We've got to start climbing the ladder back into a playoff spot and get better in our division.