265 Quotes About Climbing

Jo riktig, jeg forlot min venn i to fingre på luselisten. Men han hang ikke sånn i sin simple almindelighet, nei det må man endelig ikke tro. For man tar feil hvis man tror det. Sørgelig feil tar man. For han hang mellem det fysiske og det astrale, mellem meditation og metamorforse, mellem første og anden aggregattilstand i fysisk henseende, og mellem fjerde og femte dimension i transcendentalplanet. Så det var bra han ikke kjendte nerver av navn.

Se i mig en 96 graders venn.

Og har han i Kroppen den rigtige Aand, han løfter den staalblanke Ven i sin Haandog klapper ham under hans Hage.O lifligt at skrives i Klatrernes Laug!De Piger og Karle, som dandse paa Flaugved Sommer har lystelig' Dage.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really hard to get. I'll fly on a plane and people will look out the window at thirty thousand feet and say, 'Isn't this view good enough for you?' And I say no, it's not good enough. I didn't earn it. In the mountains, I earn it.

The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.

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

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory