Hudson Stuck Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. A pupil is a great resource.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

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#6. An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

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#7. The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

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#8. 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.

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#9. We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

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