"Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop."
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"I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing that in climbing, it manifests itself in other ways. There's the athletic side of it, but it is very much an artistic thing."
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"While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains."
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"This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it."
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"We'll climb with you and steal your women."
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"You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower."
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"A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller."
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"No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it."
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"Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see."
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"I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft."
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"Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me."
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"If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic."
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"The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship."
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"O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once."
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"A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures."
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"Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker."
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"I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous."
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"Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates."
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"None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship."
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"The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever."
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