"I said to Scott that the ascent seemed……" — Anatoli Boukreev
"I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV."
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24 Quotes by Anatoli Boukreev
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A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear,…
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I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
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I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity…
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Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
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Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls…
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This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
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I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
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Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds…
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Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From…
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How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more…
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People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
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I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them…
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
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The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It…
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As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my…
— David Steindl-Rast
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very…
— Thomas Adams
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits…
— Mark Twain
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses…
— Francis Bacon
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,…
— Virginia Woolf
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In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very…
— Lucy Irvine
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