Alex Honnold Quotes

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

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

One of the reasons the Dawn Wall climb went so viral is that you get great Internet access on El Cap. It's like the best Internet access in all of Yosemite, so we had our phones with us.

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

The Slovenians are the very best climbers in the world.

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

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

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

There's only a handful of chicks in the world who can climb big walls on my level.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

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.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

I grew up rock climbing.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

I've climbed in a lot of places, but only once in the U.K., at Stanage Edge in the Peak District.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

It's really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done - they are a big part of the history of alpinism.

Climbing is an understated culture.

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.