"But the ripe fruit must be plucked, and there is special pleasure in savouring the fruit of desire gathered in due season."
"Where there's a will there's a way."
"Little by little man adapts himself, as he must. Seeing a wold transformed, he gradually moulds it to become his own. Confronted by the joint forces of mountains and elements he feels born in himself a power, a balance and a reserve that normally lie dormant, withdrawn, but which reveal themselves in the time of need."
"Through knowledge of one's own capacity is the first great difficulty in the practice of mountaineering... This knowledge is also a marvelous reward to be earned in this sport in which cheating is out of the question and in which the infividuals's judgement is not influenced by spectators or by crowds. Man is alone, upheld by his will and his enthusiasm, face to face with rocks, ice and elements. There is no way around this pure and straight-forward encounter."
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