Anatoli Boukreev Quotes

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 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 grew up rock climbing.

Climbing is an understated culture.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

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

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

I was born into a climbing family.

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

I climb mountains.

I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

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

I've climbed in a lot of places, but only once in the U.K., at Stanage Edge in the Peak District.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

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