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Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
We put the Children to death... by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water.
A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
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