"I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind"----by Thomas F. Hornbein, The west Ridge (查看原文)
Mountaineering... was an essential expression of some odd, immutable aspect of my personality that I could no sooner alter than change the color of my eyes. (查看原文)
"The sport provided most of what had been missing for me in civvy street----The challenge, the camaraderie, the sense of mission"---by John Taske (查看原文)
...The most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the sport's emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility.....Passivity on the part of the clients had thus been encouraged throughout our expedition..... (查看原文)
"My darling, this is a thrilling business altogether, I can't tell you how it possesses me, and what a prospect it is. And the beauty of it all."--- by George Mallory in a letter to his wife (查看原文)
"The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to mysel. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened, my mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing--- and therefore so dangerous.Death through exhaustion is---like death through freezing--- a pleasant one."----by Reinhold Messner, The crystal Horizon (查看原文)
My inability to discern the obvious was exacerbated to some degree by the guide-client protocol. Andy and I were very similar in terms of physical ability and technical expertise; had we been climbing together in a nonguided situation as equal partners, it's inconceivable to me that I would have neglected to recognize his plight. (查看原文)
."....which mens to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, lived, enjoyed or hated; all that is pricelss and necessary--the sunshine, the memories, the future; which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life." ----by Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (查看原文)
"You are American; he was russian....You are a normal alpinist; he was a fantastic athlete and survival's animal. You are economically sure; he knew hunger..." ----by Simone Moro (查看原文)
