Tuesday, May 20, 2014

QUOTE OF THE WEEK ... about henry morshead

In the picture, on the far left, with Mallory on the far right, he was
one of those multi-talented, hard as nails, British climbers and
explorers from the last days of the Empire.

"Eventually Bailey came to understand that Morshead simply did not
notice impediments of any kind, certainly nothing so trivial as a
parasitic leech. Not only was the man utterly fearless, Bailey
discovered; he thought so little about danger that he didn't realize
that there was such a thing as risk."

Excerpt From: Davis, Wade. "Into the Silence." Alfred A. Knopf,
2011-10-18. iBooks.