Best Rock Climbing Quotes

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!

Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don’t need to worry about your protection.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they’d be rather flatter.

Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn’t want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

The best part is getting to the top ’cause the pain’s all over.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.

I soon learned that Everest wasn’t a private affair. It belonged to many men.

Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

My mother used to rock me – and she used big rocks.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather’s right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate… But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn’t see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

I’ve done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing – and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

I’ve climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That’s another reason why I climb.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear’s friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

I grew up rock climbing.

Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.