“This summer’s turn toward hiking could be because there isn’t anything else going on. Or it could be that there is so much else going on, too.”— Maggie Lange, thecut.com
“You ever seen an image that sears itself into your brain? Like the movie about the hiker guy, where he cuts off his own arm with a Swiss Army knife? Yeah, the sound, the tendons! Fuck! I wish I never watched that part.”— Jenji Kohan, Joe Caputo, Nick Sandow, imdb.com
“I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe … But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving…”— Edmund Hillary, nytimes.com
“My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com
“Workouts, for many, are something like possessions: If they don’t spark joy, they tend to be discarded.”— Gretchen Reynolds, nytimes.com
“To my fellow hikers: that noise I made when the butterfly came toward my face was a terrified shriek of delight.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.”— Bill Bryson, amazon.com
“It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It see…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com