Bibliotherapy Childrens Books Quotes & Sayings

The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assault on the summit, when a team member named Art Gilkey developed thrombophlebitis, a life-threatening altitude-induced blood clot. Realising that they would have to get Gilkey down immediately to have any hope of saving him, Schoening and the others started lowering him down the mountain's steep Abruzzi Ridge as the storm raged. At 25,000 feet, a climber named George Bell slipped and pulled four others off with him. Reflexively wrapping the rope around his shoulders and ice ax, Schoening somehow managed to single-handedly hold on to Gilkey and simultaneously arrest the slide of the five falling climbers without being pulled off the mountain himself. One of the more incredible feats in the annals of mountaineering, it was known forever after simply as The Belay. — Jon Krakauer

He hadn't left, and apparently, Seth was a cuddler. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit. — Nick Bantock

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go. — Robin Williams