It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B. C. !!
I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.
Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.
You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.
It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.