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Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest by Brian Dickinson
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“Whether your mountain is a literal one or not, I believe that God has put each of us on this planet to live a life that is beyond imagination. I don’t recommend the death zone for everyone, but I do recommend that whatever spot you find yourself in, you discover and climb your personal Mount Everest.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“And when people ask you if you made it to the top, remind yourself that summit or not, that’s not the most important thing. The most important thing is who you are becoming along the way.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“Whatever your mountain is—no matter how impossible it seems at times, no matter how many obstacles you face along the way, and no matter how many people tell you it can’t be done—it is possible for you to summit.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“Our faith grew tremendously through this experience, and now we know that with faith, anything is possible. We have seen God’s faithfulness firsthand.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“I breathed a prayer as I continued up on my own: “Lord, go with me.” I didn’t look back.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“How many sleeps”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“smoking cigarettes.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“it’s 29,035 feet”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“push myself to extremes”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“swollen from poison oak.”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
“have made for horrible climbing conditions, but it was an eerily fitting backdrop for what I was about to do. The house was blanketed”
― Brian Dickinson, Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest