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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.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

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.

Climbing is what I do.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.

Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.

Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.