Rappelling Quotes

I slalom ski. I wakeboard. I hike and rock climb.

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.

You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.

I grew up rock climbing.

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

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

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

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

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.

Climbing is what I do.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

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.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

I was born into a climbing family.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

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.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

Climbing is an understated culture.

I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.

The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

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.