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But we’ve known the power of the wild, the all-consuming demands of rain and snow and wind, the callousness of mountains and rivers. We’ve been cared for by strangers. We’ve felt part of something much
Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Because most of our gear was carried by yaks and human porters, my own backpack held little more than a jacket, a few candy bars, and my camera.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
I would just have to take my chances, and I did, hunched against the unbelievable cold, squinting at the snow-blown landscape through the icy windows of my car and guessing at the whereabouts of the road.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
He became more and more intrigued by the Arctic, by its lonely grandeur, by its mirages and strange tricks of light, its mock moons and blood-red halos, its thick, misty atmospheres, which altered and magnified sounds, leaving the impression that one was living under a dome. He felt as though he were breathing rarefied
Hampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Whether on foot, on showshoes or by sled, into the summer hills and their late freezing shadows—a high blaze, a runner track in the snow would show where I had gone. Let the rest of mankind find me if it could. JOHN HAINES, THE STARS, THE SNOW, THE FIRE: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE NORTHERN WILDERNESS
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
