Tommy Caldwell Quotes

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

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

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.

Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed.

I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

I do like adrenaline. Zip-lining is my favorite.

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 like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

I want to go out and do things... not just stick around having room service for two days.

People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain, but it's the most famous because it's the tallest.

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.