Everything has an end.
Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.
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.
We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.
There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of. . . What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. . . If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.
Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.