I’ve done a lot of thinking about fear. For me the crucial question is not how to climb without fear – that’s impossible – but how to deal with it when it creeps into your nerve endings. – Alex Honnold
Climbing moves are all about feeling it, and that is something I’ve spent my whole life doing. – Alex Honnold
I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years. – Alex Lowe
I’m not thinking about anything when I’m climbing, which is part of the appeal. I’m focused on executing what’s in front of me. – Alex Honnold
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody’s a beginning climber. – Alex Lowe
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. – Alex Lowe
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. – Franz Kafka
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. – Edmund Hillary
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. – Edward Abbey
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. – Fawn M. Brodie
Truth be told, I’m much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop. – Mark Udall
I’m not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay? – Maurice Sendak
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. – Nelson Mandela
A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn’t smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. – Jason Clarke
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running. – Roger Bannister
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. – Xun Kuang