Tom Hornbein Quotes

• I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

  Tom Hornbein

  Climbing, Views, Drug

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• But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

  Tom Hornbein

  Long, Way, Quiet

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• Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

  Tom Hornbein

  Nature, Travel, Orange

  Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

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• I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

  Tom Hornbein

  Men, Climbing, Affair

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