Quotes by Climbing I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation. Edmund Hillary building-up climbing believe I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. Edmund Hillary climbing safe danger It's all bullshit on Everest these days. Edmund Hillary climbing bullshit these-days Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. Edmund Hillary disaster climbing people When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them. Edmund Hillary climbing challenges giving When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. Edmund Hillary climbing miserable I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really. Edmund Hillary climbing names thinking In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. Edward Abbey climbing rocks hiking Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Edna Ferber climbing mountain writing Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. Edward Abbey climbing half adventure In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth. Edward John Trelawny climbing rocks enemy There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end. Edward Whymper climbing grief thinking Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end. Edward Whymper climbing hiking thinking Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. Edward Abbey climbing fun adventure Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind. Elena Ferrante ladders climbing guilt I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up Elbert Hubbard climbing growing-up habit If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. Elizabeth I climbing hiking heart You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart climbing hiking boys Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy. Emayatzy E. Corinealdi climbing tree book But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. Enzo Ferrari aerodynamics climbing running «345678910111213»