"The tent door faced the summit. The three pinnacles were gigantic fingers, black against the sunset. Nothing stirred.…"

"Above and beyond were mountains, scarcely touched by the tidemark of humanity at their bases, impervious to pipers an…"

"A precipice, seen by a person who has never had to climb one, is a sadly misunderstood part of the landscape. It is w…"

"The scale is so vast and so far beyond his comprehension that the conventional signs of the cliff mean as little as t…"

"The impact of these things and people on our minds was considerable. In the three years since we had left school, man…"

"In time (though there was no such thing as time) the handhold gave way to another handhold, and another, and another.…"

"The ground we had covered was easy; but we did not know that, for we had not yet learned that a vast amount of space …"

"They crawled like flies over the face of the Cobbler; and it was not too fanciful to imagine that the mountain might …"

"Climbing to my mind finds its chief justification as an antidote for modern city life. One cannot sweat and worry sim…"

"I saw him in the studio treating the microphone like an old friend, chatting away, waving his arms about, and I knew …"