Jimmy Chin Quotes

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

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.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.

The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.

There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.

I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

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 climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun.

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

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

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

I like being out there. I've done Snowdon, walked a bit of the Cleveland Way, did some of the Coast to Coast.