Bear Grylls 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.

Climbing is a journey without culmination.

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.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

I climb mountains.

Climbing is what I do.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

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

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

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

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.

I'm always climbing.

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.

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.

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

Climbing is an understated culture.

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.

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

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

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.