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“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”
Source : Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press
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“To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.”
Source : "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012. 
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“To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.”
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“My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.”
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“Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?”
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“Routes rate me, not the other way around.”
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“When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.”
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“Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.”
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“To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.”
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“C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.”
