Joe Tasker > Quotes

“The stove would only function near the entrance in the fresher air. Inside the cave the air was too thin, too stale or too cold to enable even a candle to burn. I wanted”
― Joe Tasker, Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger

“Sometimes I feel as if mountains have become an addiction, the pleasure gone, the compulsion to partake remaining. Rarely blessed with the enjoyment of the moment, I had come to realise the satisfaction of going to the limit, physically and mentally, of dipping into danger and exhaustion, of returning full of enthusiasm for life and appreciation for every part of existence.”
― Joe Tasker, Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge