Rock Climbing Quotes - Page 4

• Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Integrity, Climbing, Hiking

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Escalada, Senderismo, Montaña

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). "LA CIBERIDA

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• There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

  Mark Twain

  Climbing, People, Alps

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.246, Xist Publishing

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• Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Important, Toes

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

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Film, Mountain Climbers

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• Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

  Reinhold Messner

  Climbing, Impossible, Murder

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• My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Mother, Rocks

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

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Climbing, Mountain

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Useless

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• If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

  Doug Scott

  Funny, Climbing, Want

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Standards Set

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• 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.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Climbing, Long

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• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Holes, Drilling

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• 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.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Hombres, Escalada, Yo

  "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".

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• No es la montaña lo que conquistamos, sino a nosotros mismos.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspiración, motivación, graduación

  "Así es la vida: ingenio y sabiduría salvajes". Libro de Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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

  Stewart Francis

  Sex, Rocks, Climbing

  Stewart Francis (2013). “Pun Direction”, p.91, Hachette UK

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  Sólo quienes se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos pueden averiguar hasta dónde se puede llegar.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

  T.S. Eliot (2015). "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems", p.1250, Faber & Faber.

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• Sube a las montañas y recibe sus buenas nuevas.

  John Muir

  Sabiduría, Naturaleza, Otoño

  Atlantic Monthly, abr. 1898

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• I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.

  Rose McIver

  Running, Workout, Dad

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• I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Cycling, Rocks

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• 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.

  Martin Scorsese

  Depressing, Morning, Unique

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teaching, Kids, Rocks

  Fuente: www.summitdaily.com

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• It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

  César Romero

  Rocks, Climbing, Maritime

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• Además de escalar, hago senderismo y me gusta ir a la playa, cualquier cosa al aire libre y que me saque de lo cotidiano.

  Christa B. Allen

  Beach, Rocks, Climbing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey?
  Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

  Milton Friedman

  Football, Hockey, Rocks

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