[no, I have not died yet, but I do work in a mortuary)
Ahem . . . I believe you can now comment with more confidence than most on what it's like to spend a night at 14,508 feet . . .
I am going to combine those two thoughts ( mortuary and summit)and serve up some suitable quotes from my Words From On High Collection. Harvey
On a mountain-top a man feels himself no mere interloper on life's stage...but an entity whose span is timeless, whose scope is magnificent beyond conception, whose birth, whose death, are incidental milestones on a splendid road without beginning and without end. Frank Smythe, The Mountain Vision, page 12
To climb a mountain is to tread not only the heights of Earth, it is to adventure to the very boundary of Heaven. Frank Smythe, The Mountain Vision, page viii
To spend your life killing time has only one certainty; that is that time will eventually kill you.Gary Hall quoted in
Colin Monteath, Hall & Ball. Kiwi Mountaineers, page 118
