23 quotes found
“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is thi...”
“During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the mountains, and about what being a woman climber means. Now I know...”
“To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.”
“Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.”
“To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.”
“Static people dont fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Dont stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!”
“Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“When life brings you mountains, you dont waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.”
“And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
“One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. Theres always something just ahead.”
“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 ...”
“One cant be on the topmost rung of a ladder from before, it takes time to reach it, to climb it, one at a time. We struggle so that in this process of climbing we can learn, so that we can limit ou...”
“That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.”
“Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.”
“Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory”
“The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”
“Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.”
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”
“Static people don’t fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Don’t stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!”
“One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.”
