Hudson Stuck Quotes & Sayings

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. — Hudson Stuck

Johnny had killed four mountain-sheep and a caribou while we were gone, and not only had fed the dogs well, but from time to time had put aside choice portions expecting our return. But what was most grateful to us and most extraordinary in him, the boy had saved, untouched, the small ration of sugar and milk left for his consumption, knowing that ours was all destroyed; and we enjoyed coffee with these luxurious appurtenances as only they can who have been long deprived of them. There are not many boys of fifteen or sixteen of any race who would voluntarily have done the like. — Hudson Stuck

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction. — Hudson Stuck

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. — Hudson Stuck

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below. — Hudson Stuck

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge. — Hudson Stuck

A pupil is a great resource. — Hudson Stuck

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken. — Hudson Stuck

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali. — Hudson Stuck

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. — Hudson Stuck