Schoening 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

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. — Walt Whitman

Give me time"

"For you, always. — Lauren DeStefano

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out. — Nolan Gould

Beidleman knew they were on the eastern, Tibetan side of the Col and that the tents lay somewhere to the west. But to move in that direction it was necessary to walk directly upwind into the teeth of the storm. Wind-whipped granules of ice and snow struck the climbers' faces with violent force, lacerating their eyes and making it impossible to see where they were going. "It was so difficult and painful," Schoening explains, "that there was an inevitable tendency to bear off the wind, to keep angling away from it to the left, and that's how we went wrong. "At times you couldn't even see — Jon Krakauer

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty. — Elie Wiesel

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope

You think too much," she said.
"OK, no more thinking. — Caliente

Poor woman, do you want to know where hatred ends? Look to love. — Seneca.

When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive. — Doug Stanhope

We've the whole wide world out there waiting for us, and we've forever to make the most've it. And that's the thing: enjoyin' life. Not livin' death, or anything stupid like that.

What've we got to fear except the sun? — Garth Ennis

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable. — George Eliot

The value of everybody depend on his or her PROFICIENCY and Wisdom. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,
where economics and technology will negate each other. — Toba Beta

Each being is sacred
meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being. — Starhawk

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan