"Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition."

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Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

Jon Krakauer

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“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational.”
“As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.”
“By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.”
“Bumps are the things we climb on.”
“I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.”
“I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.”
“Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.”

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