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| "A climber's day always starts at the crux: getting out of bed." |
| "I love climbing because it feels so good when I stop..." Karl "we're all nuts". |
| "If everything's under control, you're going too slow." Mario Andretti |
| "Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." Doug Lawson. |
| "They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work." Casey Stengel. |
| "Why ? Why, why, why do I do this ???" Chuck Pratt. |
| "Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall it's great when you stop." Chris Darwin. |
| "If you fall, stand tall, and come back for more." 2Pac. |
| "To qualify for mountain rescue work, you have to pass our test. The doctor holds a flashlight to your ear. If he can see light coming out the other one, you qualify." Willi Pfisterer. |
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" You guys going up ? Yes, yes, we go up You may be going a lot higher than you think !" Don Whillans, to a Japanese party, while descending Eiger. |
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" We are going to make it... I don't think so, but we will finish in style..." Clint Eastwood |
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"That which does not kill you will make you stronger." F.N.
"That which does not make you stronger might be lots of fun before it kills you." D.U. |
| "You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out, and unless you simply forget about it and step up, you won't even get off the ground." Mike Borghoff |
| "The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective." Al Neuharth |
| "I don't want to write about climbing; I don't want talk about it; I don't want to photograph it; I don't want to think about it; all I want to do is do it." Chuck Pratt |
| "Vertigo I can handle alright It's horizonto that drives me nuts." Jim Lubell |
| "No one is completely useless They can always serve as a bad example." Anonymous |
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G.K. Chesterson |
| rok iz gud." Climer |
| "Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach." John Muir |
| "The summit is just a halfway point." Ed Visteurs |
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"It's always further than it looks. It's always taller than it looks. And it's always harder than it looks." The 3 rules of mountaineering |
| "Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence." Hermann Buhl |
| "Because it is there." George Mallory (1886-1924), answer to the question 'Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest ?' |
| "When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time." Pat Ament |
| "You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." Renι Daumal |
| "One can't take a breath large enough to last a lifetime ; one can't eat a meal big enough so that one never needs to eat again. Similarly, I don't think any climb can make you content never to climb again." Woodrow Wilson Sayre |
| "Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen." --John Muir |
| "One does not climb to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because he is enlightened." Zen Master Futomaki |
