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I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
I love the beach and rock climbing and boxing and nature, so I like to stay away from my phone as much as possible.
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.
Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.
In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.
Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.
A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.
Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.
Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.
Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.
Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.