Jon Krakauer Quotes

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• HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED
• To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the…
• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from…
• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.…
• Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space.…
• It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great…
• The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
• Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible,…
• Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a…
• In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.
• There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to…
• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
• When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him…
• THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team,…
• If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.
• But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
• Short form media is reductionist by nature.
• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a…
• Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

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