I am re-reading KISS OR KILL, which has so many quotable passages. Dr. Doom is blunt, aggressive, in your face, and he calls a spade a spade. On the other hand, there are elements of adolescent testosterone, and developmental delays, that power his prose. No matter how you cut it, for an alpinist he talked the talk and walked the walk.
"At anxious last I saw it: the southeast spur of Nuptse was terrifyingly beautiful. It had the elegance of a Halston dress and the aggressiveness of a metal-studded dog collar. There was a hollow feeling in my stomach. It became an ache, the ache became a stabbing pain. I fell to the rocks clutching my frightened head in my hands ... I wanted like I had never wanted before."