Gaston Rebuffat famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Integrity #Climbing #Want
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Rocks #Climbing #Ice
Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Regret #Thinking #Night
A la Verte on devient montagnard.
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Climbing
L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps lÃ oÃ¹, un jour, ses yeux ont regardÃ©. Et qui revient.
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Son #Climbing
Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Integrity #Climbing #Matter
Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Rain #Sunshine #Sky
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All of us have our reasons, innumerable, personal and complex. From many points of view a climb is a challenge we must meet.
-- Gaston Rebuffat

#Dream #Autumn #Climbing

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
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.
Routes rate me, not the other way around.
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

Gaston Rebuffat famous quotes

You may also like: