Kevin Jorgeson Quotes

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The Slovenians are the very best climbers in the world.

I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don't need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that's a big deal.

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.

El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.