Hudson Stuck quotes
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“We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.”
-- Hudson StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.
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“There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.”
-- Hudson StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.”
-- Hudson StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”
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“Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.”
-- Hudson StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.
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“A pupil is a great resource.”
-- Hudson StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.”
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“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.”
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Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)
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Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”
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“The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.”
Source : Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser
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Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com
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“Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.”