Top 7 Quotes by Hudson Stuck

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Thinking, Climbing, Picnics

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

Hudson Stuck

Mountain, Cracks, Burial

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.

Hudson Stuck

Air, Feet, Nineteen

Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Hudson Stuck

Alaska, Feet, Mountain

Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Hudson Stuck

Snow, Courses, Ridges

Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Hudson Stuck

Fashion, Names, Glaciers

Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.