Climbers Quotes - Page 5

• To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

  Judith Martin

  Ignorance, Sacrifice, Compassion

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.

  Richard Engel

  Mean, Moon, Thinking

  "Richard Engel Spotlights Heroes and Victims of Everest Avalanche". Interview with Andrew Katz, time.com. June 25, 2015.

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• We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do.

  Walter Bonatti

  Men, Effort, Humanity

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• In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Death, Memories, Fall

  Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”

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• I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

  Fred Nicole

  Thinking, Climbing, Doubt

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

  Jon Krakauer

  Facts, Human Condition, Deranged

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

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