"He is lucky who, in the full tide of life, has experienced a measure of the active environment he most desires. In th…"

"Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion."

"Few mountains have such a superb array of ridges and faces."

"After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red…"

"(To Eric Shipton) who had contributed a great deal to the achievement."

"Not everyone who starts the journey with you deserves to be with you at the end. You just need to realise who it is t…"

"Just like our Grade 7 teachers were amazing, they were irrelevant for tertiary, right? Not because they were bad peop…"

"I have a love-hate relationship with Everest. It’s the weather, it’s the route… and when you acclimatise, you have to…"

"I profess accurately to describe naked Africa—Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse,…"

"To say a negro is incapable of instruction, is a mere absurdity; for those few boys who have been educated in our sch…"