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Summit Quotes by Jon Krakauer
- 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…
- But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
More Summit Quotes
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled… — Conrad Black
- I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone
- A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if… — Anatoli Boukreev
- Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. — Paul D. Boyer
- It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice… — Warren Christopher
- The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there… — Yvon Chouinard