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What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not…
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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
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My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
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To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
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Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it…
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How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to…
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The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of…
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We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
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One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.
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Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating…
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing…
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Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my…
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