Frank Smythe Professions : Mountaineer Born : July 6, 1900 Died : June 27, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Frank Smythe There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death. Frank Smythe unseen ordinary men In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain. Frank Smythe hiking men civilization It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death. Frank Smythe nature yellow travel Similar Authors Bradford Washburn mountaineer Armand Charlet mountaineer Arlene Blum mountaineer Annie Smith Peck mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev mountaineer Doug Scott mountaineer All Authors
