#climb

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#climbing #into-the-wild #krakauer #change

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. ↗

— Alain Robert

#between #climb #dance #death #enjoy

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

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

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. ↗

— Barry Finlay

#africa #clean-water #climbing #education #inspirational

This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all. ↗

— Tommy Caldwell

#encouragement #obsession #perseverance #rock-climbing #family

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#emily #nature