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I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others ...

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams ... Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming. -Doug Hansen

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.

Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge.

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.

There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.

bought my respect.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

When you forgive, you love.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here ... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... give me truth.

With the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them;

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

I now walk into the wild.

I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once.

He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted,

Relish the hardship.

I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering

A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -

The United States Violence Against Women Act of 2005 requires that all victims of sexual assault be given free access to an evidence collection kit,

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-

We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality

to explore the inner country of his own soul.

My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Weeping ... betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

We understand that honor, truth and hard work win in the end. We are Montana.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless

In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.

You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.

The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.

At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn't the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.

Finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans ... .

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.

Buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

connoisseurs of geologic form,

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.

Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.

Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in.

But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

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

Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.

How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.