As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.
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.
I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
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