"Alpinists are optimists with lousy short term memory"
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Because what is below does not know what is above, but what is above knows what is below. One climbs, one sees. one descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” - Rene Daumal
"I really suffered today but the quality of the suffering was good"
"Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence – the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes – all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose by the seriousness of the task at hand." - Jon Krakauer
"Solo climbing is like life; a mystery, unpredictable, risky, often dependent on chance, and somewhat illogical" - Reinhold Messner
"I'd reather be in the mountains thinking about God, then be in church thinking about the mountains."
"I have been to Notre Dame; churches galore. None can hold a candle to the mountains. What men spent 200 years to build, is outshone by God's afterthoughts."
"Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible." - Reihnhold Messner
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Great work.
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