It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.
Climbing is what I do.
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.