Tommy Caldwell Quotes

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.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

I climb mountains.

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

One of the reasons the Dawn Wall climb went so viral is that you get great Internet access on El Cap. It's like the best Internet access in all of Yosemite, so we had our phones with us.

Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the style of ascent. It is creative.

I learned a lot from more experienced mountaineers, such as Peter Habeler, but by the time I was about 21 I reckoned I had learned all that I needed to make me technically self-sufficient anywhere.

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

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

At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.

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

I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

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

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

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

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

It's really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done - they are a big part of the history of alpinism.

You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.

The Slovenians are the very best climbers in the world.

What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.