Death, Daring, and Disaster Quotes

“In 1990, Japanese climbers installed an anemometer at the 19,400-foot level of Mt. McKinley to measure wind speeds every six minutes for one year. Upon their return the following year, they found that the cables securing the gauge had snapped and that the metal pole supporting it was badly bent.”
― Charles R. Farabee Jr., Death, Daring, and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks