This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.
Tommy CaldwellStichwörter: perseverance encouragement obsession climbing rock-climbing
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!
Helen Hunt JacksonStichwörter: beauty history nature heaven spirituality mountain california native-american american-indian climbing hiking love-story ramona natural-beauty female-author helen-hunt-jackson old-california
K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.
Ed ViestursStichwörter: mountaineering climbing k2
One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.
Irene HuntStichwörter: life journey striving climbing pursuit
No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you've become. Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never forget life's experiences, both good and bad which have shaped you as a person. You've had help climbing the rungs of life's ladder. And, those rungs can break at anytime, sending you back down to a place of humility, to remind you of where you came from and how you rose to the top….
James A. MurphyStichwörter: success humility think forget help remind climbing never successful person rose-hathaway great ladder shaped good-and-bad break matter down top life-s-experiences lifted
A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as to miss the opportunity to glimpse significantly into the eyes of the other and share the thought that occurs to all at this summit, which is, of course, that they have made it thus far, to a point where they can see horizons previously unseen, and the old earth reveals itself newly. Everything is further heightened, as we must obscurely have planned, by signs of sundown.
Joseph O'NeillStichwörter: triumph american-dream the-future conquest climbing
Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.
Mark TwightStichwörter: mountains skiing snowboarding climbing alpinism
The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.
Mark TwightStichwörter: mountains skiing snowboarding mountaineering climbing alpinism
Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: fame popularity pleasant sweetness recognition climbing
Erick had underestimated the distance, both to the ground and the cliff above me, yet the texture of the cliff wall was better than I'd hoped for. Vines and plants grew dense and well rooted, and there were many rocks and missing chunks of earth. I didn't know whether I could make it to the top on one leg or not, but I thought it was a great day to try.
Jennifer A. NielsenStichwörter: climbing jaron the-runaway-king
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