I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Ed Viesturs

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Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Ed Viesturs

Tags: safety mountaineering climbing hiking

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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

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Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.

Ed Viesturs

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