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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.
Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.
It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.
I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone
Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body.
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.
What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.
One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.
It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.