K2 Quotes

#1. Tragically, of the first five women to reach the summit of K2, three died on the descent and two were later to die on other mountains.

Mike Trueman

#2. I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Greg Mortenson

#3. Cast on a multiple of 4 sts Row 1: *K3, P1, repeat from * across row Row 2: K2, P1, *K3, P1, repeat from * across row, ending K1 Repeat rows 1 and 2 for pattern

Tara Cousins

#4. I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#5. Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#6. K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Ed Viesturs

#7. Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Edward Abbey

#8. Hermann Buhl with K2. First

James M. Tabor

#9. Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 1994.

Greg Mortenson

#10. But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

Greg Mortenson

#11. There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers n, k1, k2 and m are the same. If an electron is present, for which these quantum numbers (in an external field) have definite values, then this state is 'occupied.'

Wolfgang Pauli

#12. There is no such thing as a black middle class.

H. Rap Brown

#13. I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.

Gannicus

#14. I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

Yasmin Paige

#15. It has taken me a long time to work out the function of ex-boyfriends, at least for me: how they can help you work out what you want from life and from a partner by showing you what you don't. If a man is your ex, it's better all round if he was not Mr. Right.

Nicola Monaghan

#16. I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

Isaac Hanson