Today is your day ! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
Dr. Seuss
Today is your day ! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
Dr. Seuss
He who remains calm while those around him panics probably doesn’t know what is going on.
Mountain climbing is extended periods of intense boredom, interrupted by occasional moments of sheer terror.
For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.
1 Peter 1:24-25
Tombstone Inscription: Died at 30; Buried at 60
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. 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
Mountains are not fair or unfair – they are just dangerous.
Reinhold Messner
It is easier to love Humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
Eric Hoffer
We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
Scott, found in his diary after the party froze in Antarctica