The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
Jon KrakauerIt is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.
Jon Krakauerweeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
Jon KrakauerIt was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
Jon Krakauer