Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
The higher a monkey climb, the more he expose.
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.
I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.
I grew up rock climbing.
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.
Climbing is what I do.
I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.
Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.
God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.
I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain, but it's the most famous because it's the tallest.
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
I was born into a climbing family.
I started at the top and worked my way down.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
