Jeff Lowe Quotes

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Jeff Lowe

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 13, 1950

For me, one of the attractions simply is the variety of interests that climbing serves. In the Himalayas, it's the traveling, the different cultures you experience, the friends you make around the world. On the wall in the gym, it's the feeling of fitness, it's more exciting than pumping iron and motivates you to keep working out.

Jeff Lowe

My awareness left my body and ego, and went on a grand tour of the cosmos.

Jeff Lowe

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.

Jeff Lowe

I have always felt that no climb is worth losing the tip of a little toe.

Jeff Lowe

More than five decades of hands grated by cracks. Whole body aching from long days of big-wall hauling. Tiny tents, bivy sacs, snow caves lashed by hurricane sleet. Frozen fingers and toes. Migraines and altitude malaise. Not knowing what's to come. It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

Jeff Lowe

The challenges of adventure, rock climbing and alpinism trained me well for dealing with the slow neurodegenerative malady I'm experiencing.

Jeff Lowe

The idea of metanoia returns again and again in my life. The purpose of life is to see what you do when challenges come your way, and the value in that experience is seeing how you handle those challenges.

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I'm not a big adrenaline junkie.

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I never did end up getting any skills that are marketable in a traditional sense, but I have used my knowledge of the mountains, and I have no regrets.

Jeff Lowe

I mean any fool can hurl themselves at a climb that is beyond their abilities to safely negotiate. You may get away with such an approach nine times, but the tenth time you don't come back.

Jeff Lowe

Being willing to risk it all for any given climb will inevitably end at some point in disaster.

Jeff Lowe

Many climbers use the term 'objective hazard; to denote something they aren't to be held accountable for. I held myself accountable for the mistakes I made over the years.

Jeff Lowe

I was great at testing products at 20,000 feet, but talking them up to buyers? No, not really.

Jeff Lowe

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

Jeff Lowe

I've always pushed my body way too hard, gone days without eating at 20,000 feet, and caught every exotic bug that didn't kill me.

Jeff Lowe

I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.

Jeff Lowe

You can base your life in fear or you can base your life in love. Fear leads to negative results even in times that are basically good. On the other hand, love powers the universe.

Jeff Lowe

I've chosen to live my life in love and that has made even the most trying times beautiful experiences.

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I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that I had to do something more 'meaningful.' And that may come from my father.

Jeff Lowe

I could have saved my marriage if I had chosen to. But when I was forced to take a new look, I realized, 'Hey, it's not what I really want - it's a weird thing, but climbing is still at the center.'

Jeff Lowe