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“I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots.”
― Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
― Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.”
― The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent
― The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.”
― HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
― HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
“Mountains are both journey and destination. They summon us to climb their slopes, explore their canyons, and attempt their summits. The summit, despite months of preparation and toil, is never guaranteed though tastes of sweet nectar when reached. If my only goal as a teacher and mountaineer is the summit, I risk cruel failure if I do not reach the highest apex. Instead, if I accept the mountain’s invitation to journey and create meaning in each step, success is manifest in every moment.”
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“Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory”
― The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
― The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
“Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to ensure the perpetuation of their epic) and went off to try Everest instead.”
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“My Everest is not your Everest. Your Everest is not mine. We all have an Everest. Each of us. Sometimes the peak is literally Mount Everest but most times it lies deep within us, figuratively occupying a mountainous inner space. It calls us to rise up, to do what we formerly labeled as impossible, and to be who we deeply and desperately want to be. I know that I have found an Everest when my soul furiously pokes me repeatedly until I listen. Heeding this call to passionate adventure of any sort initiates a journey of intense immense proportion that changes every molecule of my being.”
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“Evenings were peaceful, smoke settling in the quiet air to soften the dusk, lights twinkling on the ridge we would camp on tomorrow, clouds dimming the outline of our pass for the day after. Growing excitement lured my thoughts again and again to the West Ridgeâ€�.
There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
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There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
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“On June 1 George told Ruth it would have been 'unbearable' to miss the final attempt. His frostbitten fingers might suffer further damage, but he declared: 'The game is worth a finger.”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“Everest itself was the only mountain which we could see without turning our gaze downwardsâ€�”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“The most notable event of George's U.S. tour, at least in the public mind, consisted of a four-word quote that has been ascribed to him as his answer to the question: why do you want to climb Everest? George's reply, 'Because it is there,' has been used to represent an existential urge, felt by all mountaineers, to achieve a goal that is both physical and spiritual.”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“Aà está o nó do dilema que todo alpinista no Everest acaba tendo que enfrentar: para ter sucesso, você precisa estar bastante motivado, mas, se a motivação for excessiva, é provável que você morra.”
― Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
― Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
“In a letter George had recalled the death of Donald Robertson, writing of 'the great sleeping ones that have but to stir in their slumber... Do you know that sickening feeling that one can't go back and have it undone and nothing will make good?”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose of man's desire to conquer the universe. (Quoting George Mallory)”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“I suppose we go to Mount Everest, granted the opportunity, because-in a word-we can't help it.' George had written. 'Or, to state the matter differently, because we are mountaineers.”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“It is of course possible to give more elaborate answers to the perennial question: why climb? In his writing and lectures, George described the spirit of adventure, confronting and managing risk, winning admiration; even, he confessed, the desire to be proclaimed a hero. His love for the wild places was manifest, as was his delight in the inner journey that accompanies an ascent.”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“Their three remaining porters returned to the North Col, leaving Norton and Somervell to contemplate an awesome panorama of peaks silhouetted against the red evening sky. Somervell felt he was witnessing 'a sunset all over the world' and also had the illusion that they were camped in a field close to a wall that marked the limit of their capacities and endurance.”
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
― Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
“Facciamo a braccetto gli ultimi passi. Siamo su. Ci abbracciamo. Eâ€� mezzogiorno. Abbiamo raggiunto la meta dei nostri desideri, poco sotto il cielo. Oswald è completamente euforico. Grida “Siamo su, siamo suâ€� dietro la sua maschera. Io sono felice, perché la vetta comporta anche la fine della penosa salita. La vetta significa non dover più fare nessun passo verso l'alto. Non riesco ancora ad esserne consapevole, solo le mie conoscenze mi dicono: “Questo è il punto più alto della terraâ€�.
Scattiamo le fotografie per l'album di famiglia: io, il vincitore della vetta, io, il superuomo. Io, la creatura senza fiato, io, il Reinhard su un mucchio di neve. Pian piano realizzo il freddo, il vento, la mia stanchezza. Pian piano, dopo la gioia, viene la tristezza, viene una sensazione di vuoto: una utopia è diventata realtà . Intuisco che anche l'Everest è solo un'anticima. La vera cima non la raggiungerò mai.”
― Montagna vissuta. Tempo per respirare
Scattiamo le fotografie per l'album di famiglia: io, il vincitore della vetta, io, il superuomo. Io, la creatura senza fiato, io, il Reinhard su un mucchio di neve. Pian piano realizzo il freddo, il vento, la mia stanchezza. Pian piano, dopo la gioia, viene la tristezza, viene una sensazione di vuoto: una utopia è diventata realtà . Intuisco che anche l'Everest è solo un'anticima. La vera cima non la raggiungerò mai.”
― Montagna vissuta. Tempo per respirare
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