Classic Krakauer Quotes

“Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, of course. But whatever lies ahead, you can take some comfort in the weedy resilience of our species.”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“Although Beckey’s skills as a mountaineer were unassailable, his cocky, impatient, notoriously unaccommodating personality had won him plenty of detractors.”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“Thanks to his single-minded focus, Beckey has achieved a kind of quirky, enduring magnificence to which attention must be paid.”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“Eishin Gakuen campus.”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“By the 1970s, the nation was home to more than two hundred programs dedicated to self-improvement through outdoor adventure.”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“The Brooks Range is such a seductive place to visit, moreover, not in spite of the incumbent hardships, but precisely because of them. The fact that admission to this Eden requires a toll paid in sweat, pain, and fear makes its beauty all the more intoxicating.”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

“They believed that corrosion residue might hold important clues about Mars—”
― Jon Krakauer, Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault