Steve Roper quotes

Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.
-- Steve Roper

#Funny #Climbing #Names

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
-- Steve Roper

#Climbing #Giants #Misfits

Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me !
-- Steve Roper

#Climbing #Fit

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.

Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.

C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.