Juli Roffman

“Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have
in common at the bottom is the reason you’re there, the top of the mountain.”
― Anatoli Boukreev, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

“as had been the situation on other commercial expeditions, I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.”
― Anatoli Boukreev, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

“High above our everyday life, there is another world, sculpted before any human ever walked the earth, and accessible only by our will to climb.”
― Michael Schauch, A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya

“Mountains are different and unique from anything else you will face in life in that they are the truest, cleanest representative of life’s challenges in physical form. There is no mistaking the end goal, and there is no mistaking who got you there. You have to count on you, and your arrival at the summit is the simplest and most honest achievement for your soul that you can experience.”
― Matt Larson, 4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire