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Getting up and getting down expeditiously is a time-honored precept of safe mountaineering; standing immobilized invites disaster.
Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
“Beck was so hopelessly blind,” Groom reports, “that every ten meters he’d take a step into thin air and I’d have to catch him with the rope. I was worried he was going to pull me off many times.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
Fortunately, there was an alternative to pitons: aluminum chocks that could be wedged by hand rather than hammered in and out of cracks. British climbers had been using them on their crags, but because they were crude, they were little known and less trusted in the rest of Europe and the States.
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
As scientists and engineers repeat almost like a rosary: earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.
Rebecca Skloot • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
