Freedom Climbers Quotes

“Love unto exhaustion, work unto exhaustion, and walk unto exhaustion....The only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire. —MARK HELPRIN, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR”
― Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers: The Golden Age of Polish Climbing

“The Soviet authorities didn’t outlaw climbing completely; they just shifted it from an individual experience, which they categorized as a “relic of bourgeois alpinism,” to a collective endeavour that could be manipulated by the propaganda machine.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers: The Golden Age of Polish Climbing