“I would say that the need to climb comes from that tough, lonely place of searching for your dignity.There is a purpose for that pain you just can’t always see it right away.” “The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it.“The best view comes after the hardest climb.”.“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out it’s the pebble in your shoe.”.

– Ed Viesturs (from No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks) “Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory.”.“Never did I explore life as intensively in its beautiness, as while hanging on two fingertips freely over the deep hollow.” – Wolfgang Güllich.Anytime you finish a climb, there’s always the next thing you can try.“The mountains are calling and I must go.”.“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”.“The best part of climbing is when it all clicks and gravity ceases to exist.”.The only good reason to climb is to improve yourself.” Commonly people cite exploration or discovery, but that’s rarely relevant in today’s world. “There are a dozen reasons for climbing, some bad, and I’ve used most of them myself.“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”.“Better we raise our skill than lower the climb.”.Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”.

The way I see it, there are two worlds: there’s the world where nothing is sacred except money, and the other world where everything is sacred.”

“Climbing here saved my life from the confines of materialistic illusion that we’re taught as children in school.

Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”

“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky.

“The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters” – Conrad Anker.

“There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.”.

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

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