Ed Viesturs Quotes

• Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

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  Sports, Nature, Travel

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2011). “The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak”, p.87, Crown

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• The summit is just a halfway point.

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  Climbing, Summit, Halfway

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• The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

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  Art, Knowing, Mountain

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• I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

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  Believe, Passion, Mind

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• Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

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  Nature, Travel, People

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• There are no short cuts to the top.

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  Cutting, Short Cuts

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• I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.

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  Long, Challenges, Limits

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• Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

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  Mistake, Yeah, Get Away

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• K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

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  Rocks, Ice, Snow

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2009). “K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

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  Moon, Night, Feet

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