Alex Honnold Quotes

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

When I took on Everest, I'm not there for the views.

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

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.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

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

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

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

I'm always climbing.

Climbing is a journey without culmination.

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.

The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are complicated, exhausting, often life-threatening. Risk is the fuel that keeps them going.

It's like a living process. You start out, and you see the Eiger north face, and you think, 'That's impossible.' Then you start to dream. Then you climb the Eiger north face. Then maybe you go to the Himalaya.

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.

I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.

Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the people seeking high goals in high places are in Eastern Europe, and they reach their goals because they are willing to suffer more.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.