Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold

Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.

Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold

Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

Alex Lowe
Alex Lowe

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

Alex Lowe
Alex Lowe

When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.

Amala Paul
Amala Paul

I grow tomatoes, spinach and melons, a pepper vine climbs my coconut tree. I have a home and kitchen of my own.

Annie Besant
Annie Besant

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

Conrad Anker
Conrad Anker

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I joined 'Meru' midstream after my co-director Jimmy Chin had already filmed the 2008 and 2011 climbs.