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Now we need to arrange insurance - a familiar, everyday thing. I'm afraid this "familiarity". Afraid of involuntary internal visual signal to which a person is especially when tired, one that you will hear in the unspoken "okay, let's go!", tolerance that will lead to lower guarantees. In such a case the only acceptable figure "one hundred". "Ninety-nine" is a crime.

The mountains have taught us to speak in silence.

Hell... Why it is represented by dark, swirling, bubbling? I've seen him. It is perfectly white, perfectly quiet, perfectly frozen. <...> The hell is a dismal uniformity. He attracts with his ideals and quietly but rapidly exhausting, brings to unconscious of fatigue the stillness, the soundlessness, the one-color - nothing to detain the eye, not what to listen to, nothing to feel, except for evenly burning of the sun. When there is nothing but perfect spread over the whole world of whiteness, silence, stylisti... to experience the torments of hell, we must stay here for an hour...

Courage is the ability to go the distance, where solid barriers are fear, powerlessness, disbelief...

If higher education is not a reason to call the athlete's intellectual, that the vast majority of higher education in mountaineering is the sport of intellectuals.

If climbing is the art of passing the walls, then climbing to even (and maybe especially) the art of human behavior.

In this frozen, sparkling with snow and ice, the vast, crushing the scale of the world we are only three small inconspicuous point. It is worth to come here to realize their infinite smallness... And yet, as the blots, mariem its dazzling whiteness.

They say bad kept in memory longer than good. Wrong. It was invented by people living monotonous, monotonous life. They actually remember more bad - their "good" so smooth, so casual, so casually that he does not remember them. Any most pinprick - deviation on their smooth, devoid of eventfulness lifeline. And therefore remembered. But if the line lomana, if it is dotted with bursts as sweep on the oscilloscope, if happiness is hard, extracted, as they say, in struggle and adversity, if the set of negative spikes crowned with one large positive, then the splash seems better, and the memory it holds a lot stronger.

Before Pat on the shoulder, one must first reach it.

Harmless mountains does not happen. The mountain predators. Sometimes they sleep, well-fed, please... for a Long time, for many years. And people it seems like they hand. All - and the most experienced, most cautious, circumspect - euthanized, if the mountains long sleep.