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

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 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

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 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

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

Jeff Lowe

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

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

Climbing is wildly diverse, ranging from the rock-climbing wall at the local health club to the cutting edge of major Himalayan Alpine ascents.

Jeff Lowe

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

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

Jeff Lowe

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

Jeff Lowe

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

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

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

Jeff Lowe

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

Jeff Lowe

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

Jeff Lowe

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

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.

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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

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

Jeff Lowe

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