Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Quotes

Climbing is what I do.

I grew up rock climbing.

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was a rock climber.

I was born into a climbing family.

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

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

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

I climb mountains.

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

I like to go rock scrambling.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

I love the feeling of touching the rock, the feeling of my body going up the rock.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.