Favourite Climbing Quotes?

[PHIL]

What's your favourite light hearted climbing quote?

A couple of my favs are

'Blood: substance commonly used to mark a climbing route'
'climbing can you but women can destroy you'

any more favs out there?

Phil

[Hal Murray]

> What's your favourite light hearted climbing quote?

You may be going a lot higher than you think!

Another I like is a paragraph. I forget where I saw it. Our
heros are bivied high in the Alps. It's really really cold.
They aren't getting any sleep. Some light creeps over the edge
of the world. They start thinking they are going to make it.
Then the moon comes up.

There is a whole book full of them. I forget the title.

Here is a good collection:
http://www.terragalleria.com/mountain/info/quotes.html

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[lekker]

Hal Murray wrote:
>> What's your favourite light hearted climbing quote?
>
> You may be going a lot higher than you think!
>
> Another I like is a paragraph. I forget where I saw it. Our
> heros are bivied high in the Alps. It's really really cold.
> They aren't getting any sleep. Some light creeps over the edge
> of the world. They start thinking they are going to make it.
> Then the moon comes up.
>
>
> There is a whole book full of them. I forget the title.
>
> Here is a good collection:
> http://www.terragalleria.com/mountain/info/quotes.html
>
>

"Contrary to my insisting claims to be innocent of all these venerable
attributes except that of a climber was I called at times to the
deathbed of a watch of American birth or to produce on different
occasion the marvelous acoustic phenomena of yodel echoes with the
effect that by and by people looked with obvious glances of discredit at
my alleged Swiss origin."

from Val Fynn's account of the first ascent of Mt. Alberta
as told in Climbing in North America, Chris Jones

[Eugene Miya]

In article <p4Hek.26442$E41....@text.news.virginmedia.com>,

Find the book about Sheridan Anderson and his cartoons.

One partner's favorite cartoon which sticks in my memory a long time ago
had two guys sitting on a bivy ledge, one guy has placed his hand on the
other guy's knee and says, "Gets kind of lonely on these bivvy ledges,
Don't it?"

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[Simon Isbister]

"PHIL" <pb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:p4Hek.26442$E41....@text.news.virginmedia.com...

I always enjoy reading Climbing Mag's "Overheard" section... not exactly
famous quote, but very funny.

The best thing I ever personally overheard at the crags was at the Gunks.
We were walking along, and came upon this Eastern European climber (with
what looked like a standard E.Euro rack of home-made titanium cams, nuts
slung on old cord, and a few things I couldn't even identify). He is about
40 ft up a route, with a little bit of nothing between him and the ground.
He is twisted into a really awkward stance, trying to figure out the next
move. he looks up, he looks down (at his lack of gear), and calls out (and,
you must read this with your best eastern european accent), "It is HARD...
but... I WILL NOT DIE TODAY!"

A small cheer came up from the crowd that had paused to watch.

-s-

[PHIL]

How about:- Climbers: Crack Addicts

get it?

Phil

[PHIL]

I do my own stunts,

http://redwear.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-do-my-own-stunts-climbing-t-shirt-for.html

[Guillaume Dargaud]

> any more favs out there?

I've long been compiling my own list (many of which are from the golden days
of r.c):
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesClimbing.html
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesClimbingRisk.html
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesClimbingWomen.html
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesClimbingSerious.html

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http://www.gdargaud.net/