162 Climbing Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was once caught climbing out of the classroom window while bunking a class. I lied that I had to go to the bathroom and the exit was crowded. The principal believed me. Swara Bhaskar

Me Class Bathroom Once Out Lied Window Classroom Crowded Had Principal Caught Climbing Go Exit While Believed

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me. Tommy Caldwell

Me World Walls Thrive Pain Tolerance Kid Those Though Bad Steep Had Demanded Stumbled Sheer Felt Climbing Came Up Being Where Grew Cap Clumsy Skill Naturally Coordination Right Amount Here

The types of climbing that I choose to do I'm good at justifying. I do really try and pick things that I'm going to live through. I don't want to die, and I'm relatively cautious. I play with that line all the time. I want things that are very exciting, so much so that they can feel almost spiritual. Tommy Caldwell

Time Good Spiritual Try Live Types Relatively Through Pick Exciting Almost Feel Climbing Line Cautious Very Die Going Want Justifying Much Really Choose Play Things

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing. Tommy Caldwell

One of the nice things about indoor training is you can make holds that are better on your skin, so you can train more before your fingers wear out. You can get stronger faster climbing inside. Tommy Caldwell

I'm always climbing. Tommy Caldwell

Always Climbing

I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you do have to be realistic that your body won't be able to keep up forever. Tommy Caldwell

I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion. Adam Ondra

Discipline Think Speed Philosophy I Think Kind Opinion Climber Climbing Train Artificial Same Common In My Opinion Holds Which Much Compete

I love fruit. One of my earliest memories is climbing trees for figs, and I once got stuck in one when I was six. I could see the biggest, juiciest fig and I climbed up and got it and ate it right there, sitting on a branch. Then I realised I couldn't get down. Katie Melua

Love Memories Fruit Down Trees Once I Love Ate See Could Stuck Got Climbed Climbing Up Branch Get Sitting Six Biggest Realised Then Fig Right Earliest Earliest Memories

Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination. Adam Ondra

Problems Power Static About Finger More Boulder Mostly Rock Real Climbing Lot Whereas Which Requires Used Coordination

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks. George Monbiot

Good You Plants Rich Other Trees Enough Fragments Definition Find Support Particularly Climbing Covered West Forest Persist Wet Tiny Confined Where Lower Grow Flowering Britain

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old. Adam Ondra

Remember Old Seriously I Remember More Remember When Climbing Years Six Started

When a mom or dad can stop worrying about where they will lay their head each night they can start climbing back on their feet and out of poverty. Charlie Baker

Mom Will Poverty Back Worrying Out About Lay Head Feet Climbing Stop Where Each Dad Each Night Start Night

I was born into a climbing family. Adam Ondra

Family I Was Born Born Climbing

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years. Adam Ondra

Natural People Few Swimming Think I Think Thousand Running Thousand Years Like Sport Climbing Doing Been Years Movements Deserves Things Olympic

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