High Infatuation Quotes

“Climbing, simply and joyfully, is the way I love the world.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity

“I am perhaps excessively independent and generally reclusive, and I hated having to ask people for help, but I could see that this was yet another opportunity to work on a weakness. Free Rider was stretching me in ways I had never anticipated.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity

“I have always felt safest alone on the side of a hard-to-reach wall or a mountain. Although I understand that I could die in the mountains, I trust the hand of nature, and I know it will do me no harm. People seem to change and do confusing things. Places, on the other hand, I can count on.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity

“The darkness hid the wild exposure, and I was surprised to feel totally relaxed, climbing much faster and more efficiently than I had hoped.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity

“I felt strong enough to go back down to piece together the exposed, powerful moves on the second pitch of the headwall, the “boulder problem pitch.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity