We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

A pupil is a great resource.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

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.