Quotes by Conrad Anker - Page 1

Climbers have no sense of smell.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climbers
Smell
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Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Mountains
Respectfully
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The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Summit
Us
Climb
Itself
Drives
Matters
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Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Enlightenment
Found
Stomach
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Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Culmination
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The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don't allow for mistakes.
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Cold
Allow
Mistakes
Mountains
Demanding
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There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climbs
Everest
Risk
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It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Everest
Climb
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The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Compression
Avalanche
Underneath
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I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Logical
Wild
Drawn
Extension
Young Guy
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If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climb
Mountains
Shoot
Outdoor
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I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climbs
Everest
Be Happy
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We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate change, we won't be around as humans.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climate Change
Humans
Change Climate Climate Change
Burner
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Live in the moment and make the most of every single hour that you're alive. Like it says on the sign outside the drop zone in front of the school: No Idling.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Alive
Zone
Drop
Front
Hour
Idling
Outside
Says
Sign
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I like to think that today is the best day of my life and tomorrow will be the next best day of my life. And if you think that way, you're living for the beauty of today.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Beauty
Next
Today
Tomorrow
Beauty Life Best
Living
Day
My Life
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It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Adventure
Earth
Territory
Unknown
Discover
Set
Feeling
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The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a unifying and inspiring event, signifying the drive to reach our greatest potential.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Inspiring
Ascent
Everest
Relief
Unifying
Wars
Event
World Wars
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I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Parenting
Offspring
Life Yourself Your
Everyone Else
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From a climbing standpoint, gravity is the adversary. You and your fellow humans are striving together to get to the same place at the same time. And I think that's a really good way for humans to interact.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Good Way
Gravity
Humans
Standpoint
Time Good Together
Adversary
Fellow
Interact
Striving
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When you find your passion, it's great. You go up a mountain with partners, and you have a wonderful opportunity to connect and achieve a goal together. You are not trying to be better than other humans. You are supporting each other.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Humans
Mountain
Partners
Connect
Great Opportunity Better
Supporting
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The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climbing
Delicate
Glaciers
Mountains
Full-Time
Rapid
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Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Adventure
Frivolous
Motivation
Gift Me People
Get A Real
Me Gift People
Real Job
Wondered
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Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Adventure
Antarctica
Earth
Everest
Exploration
Google
Across
Challenge
Choose
Climb
Create
Foot
Gear
Walk
Mapped
Minimal
Terms
Specifically
Square
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It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Africa, traveling far and wide across the entire planet, from the Arctic to the tip of Tierra Del Fuego, making us the most geographically diversified species on Earth.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Arctic
Human Nature
Species
Wide
Diversified
Explore
Far And Wide
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Tip
Walked
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Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Apex
Cosmic
Humbling
Our Planet
Oxygen
Reserves
Standing
Symbolism
Time Experience Chance
Scale
Bound
Dangerous Place
Depleted
Starved
Unable
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If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these guys who have done so much. I'm not Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods - I'm just an old, gray-beard mountain climber, but I'm hoping to inspire people to follow my way.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Armstrong
Giving Back
Inspire
Mountain
Woods
Good Me People
Good Done Me
Climber
Hoping
Lance Armstrong
Suit
Tiger
Tiger Woods
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Yes, I was inspired by Jack London and still love reading his books. Ernie Banks is another hero because I lived in Chicago for two years as a kid, and I loved that he was the Cubs' loyal underdog and one of the first African-Americans to make that breakthrough.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Breakthrough
Chicago
Cubs
Hero
Loyal
Underdog
Banks
Jack
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Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement or plastic or steel, everything is at an angle. But nature is chaos theory in full play. So having that uniqueness of what nature is gives me a sense of rejuvenation and scale.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Angle
Cement
Chaos
Plastic
Steel
Uniqueness
Scale
Construct
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When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antarctica. The other kids would come by and be like, 'Oh! The wind and snow is blowing.' From a young age, I wanted to be out there and surviving. I'm a high-strung, hyperactive guy.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Antarctica
Ice
Pillow
Snow
Surviving
Wind
Young Age
Blowing
Fort
Age Young Always
Other Kids
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Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as a part-time carpenter and kept up a relationship with The North Face. One thing led to another, and I'm lucky to be where I am now. It was a circuitous path with lots of adventure throughout.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Adventure
Carpenter
Part Time
Path
University
Lots
Climb
Graduated
Led
North
Outdoors
Throughout
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The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Blank
Blank Canvas
Canvas
Discovery
Existence
Humans
Indomitable
Limits
Paint
Long Process Will
Brief
Mountains
Conquered
Foot
Test
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Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Competitiveness
Driven
Exploration
Offers
Perspective
Unique
Woods
World Face Your
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Face World Your
Perhaps
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If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climate Change
Compare
Everest
Glaciers
Imagine
Indiana
Manifestation
Obvious
Change Believe Climate
Golfer
Photographs
Current
Current State
Melt
Planet
Warming
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