Sentence examples for climbers i from inspiring English sources

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

Beside the climbers, I got to know the other group of people traveling with us — our local Balti porters, drawn from the mud-brick shacks in the Karakoram foothills.

Not if the climbers I was with were anything to go by: Ian, Mary, Nick, Richard, Steve, a hundred years of mountain experience between them, grounded, extremely fit and savvy.

As a climbing partner of his wrote to me once, in a dismissal of the skeptics, "Climbers I find are assholes at the end of the day!" On a visit to New York a few years ago (he ran in the marathon and then joined me for a first ascent of One World Trade Center, via the stairwell route), he said that his new mantra was "Slow down and stay alive".

Even the climbers I had featured on the website were getting fan mail.

The only two climbers I met who had summited had Verdun-like thousand-mile stares when describing the conditions on top.

Nearly every climber I met knew some climber who had died, and all had had close calls themselves.

"I'm not a climber, I'm an adventurer," he said.

As a rock climber, I'm around a one or two.

For an amateur climber, I recommend the Northwest route: various companies organise a 21-day trip (which includes time to acclimatise).

A Spanish climber I spoke to later died on Gasherbrum II, and a South Korean woman I interviewed in Islamabad for my book died a week or so later on another mountain, Nanga Parbat.