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I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.
I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.
Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.
When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to accomplish it.
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable than rock.
When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.
Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.
When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.
I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important thing when I'm soloing.
I've been a really big fan of climbing. I really got into it when I watched the show 'Beyond the Limit' about climbing Mount Everest.
In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.
(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.