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“But people don’t climb because it makes sense. You can come up with reasons—it gives direction to the lost, friends to the loner, honor to the reprobate, thrills to the bored—but, ultimately, the quest for a summit defies logic. So does passion. So does a trip to the moon. There are better things to do. Safer, cheaper, more practical. That’s not the point.”
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
“Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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