Elle

“Sometimes it really is as simple as saying a thing out loud, turning it into your newest truth.”
― Jacqueline Bublitz

“I knew more than anyone that nature didn’t care for reputation, age, gender, or background. It was equally indifferent to personality: the mountain couldn’t give a shit if the people exploring it were morally nasty or nice.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

“I tried putting chopsticks from the kitchen drawer into my hair and it felt like it was over doing things a bit, so I put them back. I even considered painting the chopsticks black because they were brown, and black would’ve suited my outfit better. Yet the fact that I considered painting them at all caused me to be embarrassed at myself, so I decided to ditch the accessories that were at one time used to stuff pad Thai into someone’s face. Painted or not, you can’t change the reality of what chopsticks are or the main way that they’ve been used for, like, centuries. Eons, even. So let a chopstick be a chopstick, and my hair can be what it is, too.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“The mountains were just about the best therapy a person could experience.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone