Jeff Lowe Quotes

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Jeff Lowe

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 13, 1950

I think I know now that you can't do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You're not a practicing father if you're not there. You're maybe a visiting father.

Jeff Lowe

For me there's no future. All I'm interested in is now.

Jeff Lowe

I will still probably die of aspiration-caused pneumonia. I can go along breathing well, then I might aspirate on something, develop pneumonia and be gone in a week.

Jeff Lowe

A friend once told me that I was always so manipulative, 'a silver-tongued devil,' as he put it. I was never aware of it.

Jeff Lowe

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

Jeff Lowe

Mom would pack our lunch and send us off with no supervision. There were enough of us so that if she lost a few, there would still be plenty left.

Jeff Lowe

It went way beyond just sex with Catherine. It was more like recognizing a time of shared destiny of our souls. We were both born to climb, and we each glimpsed the possibility of the perfect partner in the other.

Jeff Lowe

Hunters get lost all the time. There's just an outcry against climbers because a lot of people don't understand climbers and they think they're crazy.

Jeff Lowe

Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way.

Jeff Lowe

I can see the time coming when I won't need to be out there in the upper pyramid of climbing, but the things you gain from a lifetime of climbing are worth communicating.

Jeff Lowe

I may have had some symptoms as early as 1998 - dizziness, vision problems, balance. Anyway, it's been a progression, it hasn't stopped since I first noticed it. Each year there is a considerable decline.

Jeff Lowe

I hate big shots of adrenaline. It means you don't have enough margin.

Jeff Lowe

Sometimes I spent more time planning a climb than doing it.

Jeff Lowe

We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.

Jeff Lowe

Wall climbing is an offshoot of the more traditional sport of mountain climbing. It is very difficult; one must combine a great deal of stamina with the ability of a world-class gymnast.

Jeff Lowe

I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable than rock.

Jeff Lowe

I still value the adventurous side, confronting the mountain on its terms, more than I value actual success in terms of getting to the top. That has very little meaning to me.

Jeff Lowe

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

Jeff Lowe

You have to have a lot of experience and confidence and a willingness to go down when things aren't right and try again. That's when people in the Himalayas get hurt, when they don't have the knowledge or willingness to retreat when necessary. There's no place for a macho attitude in the Himalayas. It's what gets people killed.

Jeff Lowe

It's dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. The greatest risk of injury is knocking off a piece of ice with your pick and having it fall on your forehead.

Jeff Lowe