#climb

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#climb #desire #great #great writer #i

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#fun #more #part #pleasurable #skiing

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#climbing #climbs #doing #gives #harder

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit. ↗

— Rhona Mitra

#cool #got #outfit #spiderman #walls

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#before #climbing #few #follow #going

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. ↗

— River Phoenix

#climbing #consume #corporate #hands #just

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

#fain #fall #fear #i #would

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#ahead #been #before #climbing #each

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#case #climb #contact #county #get

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it. ↗

— Ed Viesturs

#k #death