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“If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.”

Ifs Children Poor Climbs Climbing Neurotic Rock Climbing Expeditions Climbers Mountain Climbers

Book:Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas

Source: Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas

“Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.”

Persons Fall Rocks Mountain Newspapers Piano Climbing Pianist Factual Climbers

Book:How to be a master climber in six easy lessons

Source: How to be a master climber in six easy lessons

“What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.”

People Knows Way Made Ideas Different Self Dream Jobs Sports Mines Hero Training Coaches Racing Mainstream Devoted Bike Handful Riders My Hero Self Made Sponsors Climbers Sprinters

Author:Steve Tesich

“It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)”

Different Might Strong Given Force Rocks Findings Approach Driven Occasions Mathematical Subtle Cracks Delicate Mathematician Routes Climbers

Book:Littlewood's Miscellany

Source: Littlewood's Miscellany

“Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.”

“Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.”

Firsts May Steps Morning Summit Adventurer Everest Climbers Mount Everest Climbing Mount Everest

Author:Edmund Hillary

“The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.”

Ends Matter Goal Effort One Thing Illusion Things That Matter Climbers

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.”

Thinking Successful Late Mature Climbers

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.”

Children Tree Climbers

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.”

Mind Pain Social Hurt Unkind Climbers Snobbish

Author:Rachel Johnson