Jimmy Chin

As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.

American Athlete

Ueli Steck

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

Swiss Athlete

Jung Chang

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

British Writer

Shania Twain

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

Canadian Musician

Ismail Merchant

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

Indian Producer

Sylvester Stallone

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

American Actor

Neil Marshall

I don't really have a life outside of movies. But I like to climb mountains and walk the dogs. I like fine wines and good restaurants.

English Director

Samina Baig

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

Pakistani Athlete

Reinhold Messner

The Slovenians are the very best climbers in the world.

Italian Explorer

Zig Ziglar

American Author

Refers to literal upward movement, often requiring effort and physical strength.

Physical Activity

Usually involves hands and feet, and may imply some skill or ability.

Using Limbs

Can imply moving in any direction across a surface, like a wall or a slope.

Not Always Upward

Suggests a steady, often moderate, rise rather than a rapid spike.

Gradual Increase

Metaphorically describes increasing levels of anything measurable, like rates or temperatures.

Figurative Use

Focuses on the journey and possible challenges, not just the destination.

Journey's Effort

Implies reaching something at a higher elevation, synonymous with 'ascent'.

Reaching Heights

Generally about moving up in a job or status, often used with 'ladder' or 'ranks'.

Career Ascent

Even without physical action, 'climb' can mean making progress in career or life.

Metaphorical Movement

 and more common than you might think, from crabs with one giant pincer claw to snail species whose shells' always coil in the same direction. Some species of beans only climb up their trellises clockwise, others, only counterclockwise, and even though the human body looks pretty symmetrical on the outside,

Why are human bodies...

 that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before. In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense. Sharpening their claws on nearby surfaces kept them conditioned and ready, helped stretch their back and leg muscles,

Why do cats act so...

 while these guys were up there in the storm. The storm was so fierce that we had to lay, fully dressed, fully equipped, laid out on the tent floor to stop the tent from blowing off the mountain. It was the worst winds I've ever seen. And the climbers up on the ridge

Ken Kamler: Medical...

 the whole exploration right for me science and it is base with our new business or engineering or whatever else science is my passion because for me it's like climbing a mountain that's exploring the unknown right and that's what we do as kids and as a scientist

Making safe nuclear...

 then must climb up to the pouch, where she spends the next 6-11 months suckling. Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for.

The three different ways...

 What is reality, knowledge, the meaning of life? Big topics you might tackle figuratively explaining existence as a journey down a road or across an ocean, a climb, a war, a book, a thread, a game, a window of opportunity,

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 farming, and even military tactics. Standardized tests continued to be used around the world for the next two millennia, and today, they're used for everything from evaluating stair climbs for firefighters in France

Should we get rid of...

 the bratty little kid was common really hard out of nowhere he has a great fierce open faced passion for climbing and for the art of the natural world as it is expressed through climbing

World's Hardest Climb...

 with young pups to protect they take greater risks by climbing higher here they can see predators earlier but are vulnerable to birds of prey their self-sacrifice is about to be tested

5 Amazing Animal...

 But why do people risk life and limb to climb Everest? Is it the challenge? The view? The chance to touch the sky?