"Twilight was always followed by intense cold, profound silence would brew over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness.

 

There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her.

 

The simple fact is that these are not mountains like other mountains and one cannot look at them without disquiet and foreboding."

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-from Duke Abruzzi's 1909 Expedition to climb K2