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- Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb…
- It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I…
- If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point…
- This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but…
- He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was…
- You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put…
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