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When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
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Mountaineer
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
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Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
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Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.
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If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away, Alex cheerfully retorted. I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
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Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
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Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
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Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
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That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
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I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.
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The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
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The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.
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Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
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When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
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Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
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You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.
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But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
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If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.
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