gregm Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 "i'm gonna kill fred beckey" - a gumby on the boulder glacier Quote
EWolfe Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 My old autosig: "I climb because it feels so good when I stop ---? I climb because beer tastes so good afterwards" ---Steven Baldwin Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "You cannot stay on the summit forever. You have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this. What is above has seen what is below. What is below has not seen from above. One climbs,one sees,one descends,one can no longer see, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions based on what one has seen from above"-Rene Duval Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 There are only three sports: Motor racing, Bullfighting, and Mountaineering; the rest are merely games. -Ernest Hemmingway Quote
Dru Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 Alpinfox said: "You cannot stay on the summit forever. You have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this. What is above has seen what is below. What is below has not seen from above. One climbs,one sees,one descends,one can no longer see, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions based on what one has seen from above"-Rene Daumal . Mt. Analogue Quote
gregm Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 Alpinfox said: There are only three sports: Motor racing, Bullfighting, and Mountaineering; the rest are merely games. -Ernest Hemmingway actually i think hemmingway never said that. it's an urban legend or something. fwiw. Quote
skyclimb Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 It seems that every climb i do these days is like a dream. When i get down, and reflect it seems like i have just lived a lifetime in a day, and the lifetime is just a hazy dream. My goal is to make the dream reality. Nick Quote
ctuller Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 Not originally climbing related, but if you read between the lines.... "When the going gets wierd, The weird turn pro" Hunter S. Quote
Farrgo Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "It doesn't have to be fun, to be fun." -Twight? "Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are withing reach." -John Muir Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun." ~Alex Lowe Quote
nonanon Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "First and foremost, in the spirit of classical mountaineering, it is a self-evident requirement that the first ascent of a summit or a climbing route.....must always start from below!" -- Dietrich Hasse and… “The day you don't have a hill to climb, you might as well forget about it." -- Dag Aabye Quote
layton Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "We're going to suffer" -Scott Bakes being asked what we're gonna do now during some shitty epic. "just call me underscore(_)" -me to my fans when asked if I am indeed michael_layton Quote
Fence_Sitter Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 gregm said: Alpinfox said: There are only three sports: Motor racing, Bullfighting, and Mountaineering; the rest are merely games. -Ernest Hemmingway actually i think hemmingway never said that. it's an urban legend or something. fwiw. i think 90% of all quotes have been dispelled as urban legends on this site... it is a funny occurence... that is even not including all those voltair quotes after the MN scandal... Quote
snoboy Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 gregm said: Alpinfox said: There are only three sports: Motor racing, Bullfighting, and Mountaineering; the rest are merely games. -Ernest Hemmingway actually i think hemmingway never said that. it's an urban legend or something. fwiw. Since 1999, the Hemingway Quote Finder has fielded more than 5000 quote source requests and has become a phenomenon in its own right. People from all walks of life have e-mailed in quotations: professors, film production companies, government officials, and authors. If I had a dollar for each time the following quotation was submitted, I would soon corral enough money to pay my web hosting fees until the next millennium: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."8 I've received this inquiry so many times that it prompted me to e-mail back a standard reply: This is one in a long list of quotations mysteriously attributed to Ernest Hemingway. While the general public seem to agree that this is in fact a Hemingway quotation, scholars have some reservations and for good reason. The early Hemingway did not believe that bullfighting was a sport. For him it was a tragedy. See his October 20, 1923 article titled "Bullfighting A Tragedy" reprinted in By-Line: Ernest Hemingway Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades edited by William White. Hemingway reiterates his beliefs regarding the tragedy of bullfighting in his 1932 book, Death in the Afternoon. Source Quote
ChrisT Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 Hemingway was quite the man. Didn't he shoot himself in the head? Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 Quite a collection here: http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesClimbing.html "One method of getting loved ones to look more fondly on your climbing is to tell them that since you've started climbing you hardly do drugs anymore." — David Harris. "I've seen 5.11 divided into 11 different grades of increasing difficulty, as follows: 5.11a, 5.10d, 5.11-, 5.11b, 5.11, 5.11c, 5.9 squeeze, 5.11+, 5.10 OW, 5.12a, 5.11d" — Brutus of Wyde. Quote
iain Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 barely got off the ground on License to Bolt (11b) the other day. I hate that climb Quote
richard_noggin Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 I agree with those who say that climbing is not life. It is much better than that. In climbing you get nothing other than what you absolutely deserve. It has no skin color, no gender, no rules that matter ( att: retrosoreass )and no lawyers, referees, or pushy parents. You can't get any more than exactly what you put into it. There are no dead ends in climbing, no barriers other than the ones we impose upon ourselves. The blend of skill, boldness, and the desire of each route is unique unto itself and yet connected to every other route as if within one long contiguous passage. Life is hard on dreams, and even harder on dreamers. Climbing was built for them. For in climbing success and failure both lead to the same place, to new resolves and new possibilities. LIFE SHOULD BE SO GOOD!!! From Stone Places by Geof Childs Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes." — Jonathan Waterman Quote
sk Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 my favorite climbing quote "but Ken... It's not about how many 5.10's you led, it's about how many 5.10 leaders you've laid" - Bev Johnson it reminds me to not take everything so seriously including myself Quote
SpongeBob Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 "Give me the good ol'days where boobs were a couple of dumb guys"----sherrif Bueford T. Justice. Quote
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