“...if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it,
that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.” - George Mallory
“I want to see what I can do personally, to see if I can be the best. I want to measure up to whatever I can find.
I want to expand my horizons and grow. Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human activity. If there’s an ocean we cross it.
If there’s a disease we cure it. If there’s a record we break it.” - James Whittaker
“It is not the goal of grand alpinism to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising
for an instant above the state of crawling grubs” - Lionel Terray
“Mountains don’t kill people, they just sit there” - Ed Viesturs
“Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory” - Ed Viesturs
“The combination of skiing and mountaineering is the finest of all sports.” - Sir Arnold Lunn
“If you’re pushing the edge . . . eventually you find the edge.” - Jimmy Chin
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