Bailey Meeker

“Dad used to say, “Death is a part of it all.” I say it’s the ugly part. But it’s why I’m here, why Eiger climbers come. We come because they died, and by dying they created this legend, and we want to be a part of the legend, without dying.”
― John Harlin, The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
― Flavia Weedn

“A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.”
― Matt Dickinson, The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm