“Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.” ThinkingClimbingMistakenPicnics Author:Hudson Stuck
“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.” MountainCracksTombsBurial Author:Hudson Stuck
“We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.” CoursesSnowRidges Book:Ascent of Denali Source: Ascent of Denali
“There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.” FeltAirFeetColdThousandNineteenThin Air Book:Ascent of Denali Source: Ascent of Denali
“Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.” FirstsHumansWellsHuman BeingsFeetMountainDistinctionNativeLifelongAlaskaAlaskans Book:The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Source: The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America
“Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.” ShouldTurnsNamesFashionReaderGlaciers Book:Ascent of Denali Source: Ascent of Denali