Quotes by Hudson Stuck

• The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
• We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
• There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
• Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
• An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
• A pupil is a great resource.
• Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.