"Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind."
"The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die."
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"Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive."
"Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best."
"With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger."
"My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement."
"Better we raise our skill than lower the climb"