Sergio G.

“I face death, rather than avoid it. I climb anyway. Somehow I manage to handle the comings and goings of partners and loved ones. I pay homage, but I also move on. I don't know about whatever might come with death. Little by little I understand what it is that comes before: the life we are all living through right now. I see how easy it is to die in those beautiful places. I have lost many friends to the loveliness and horror of ice and stone walls. I still cry for them, for myself. The beauty of the high places is tempered by threat and danger. I remember the struggles won and lost up there. Every situation in life has its black side. Every human being on this planet would love to make that side go away. Wishing it away, ignoring the danger and the consequences, they can make believe it no longer exists. I refuse this option.”
― Mark Twight, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

“I spend my time reading, sleeping, eating. The good, quiet life, with nothing to do. And little by little the water tank fills up.”
― Bernard Moitessier, The Long Way

“Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the rush and whirl of everyday things, we so often live alongside one another without making any mutual contact. We had learned on the North Fae of the Eiger that men are good, and the earth on which we were born is good."(p.126)”
― Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger

“If I do have to sight land, I like it to be from as far off as possible.”
― Bernard Moitessier, The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic