Ascent into Hell Quotes

“Ambition drives us forward, takes us to unexpected places, faraway lands. The acceptance of trying and failing defines those who follow a dream. But trying and quitting, I’ve never been good at that.”
― Fergus White, Ascent Into Hell: Mount Everest

“When the going gets rough up here, mountaineers do whatever it takes to survive. Dignity is an early casualty.”
― Fergus White, Ascent Into Hell: Mount Everest

“But that’s the thing about real life; intentions don’t necessarily align with deeds. Nor do they always blossom into rational consequences. A biography written backwards can be hammered into shape, till themes reveal themselves and float across the pages. Reality, however, rarely surrenders such meaning. Perhaps W. B. Yeats described us best, as that “bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast.”
― Fergus White, Ascent Into Hell: Mount Everest

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion...I go to them as humans go to worship. From their lofty summits I view my past, dream of the future and, with an unusual acuity, am allowed to experience the present moment...my vision cleared, my strength renewed. In the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.”
― Fergus White, Ascent Into Hell: Mount Everest

“But that’s the thing about real life; intentions don’t necessarily align with deeds. Nor do they always blossom into rational consequences. A biography written backwards can be hammered into shape, till themes reveal themselves and float across the pages. Reality, however, rarely surrenders such meaning. Perhaps W. B. Yeats described us best, as that “bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast”
― Fergus White, Ascent Into Hell: Mount Everest