Gordon A. Eadie Quotes

“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go on forever.

The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don’t conquer anything except things in yourself. The act of writing justifies poetry.

Climbing is the same: recognizing that you are a flow. The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going.

There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication.”