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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
Climbing is what I do.
Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.
I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.
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.
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.