“ Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace. Joe Simpson
“ Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? I'll never know. Joe Simpson
“ My body isn’t designed for walking. It’s entirely the wrong shape. The legs are far too short and the whole trunk is shaped exactly to fit into seats and be carried comfortably to its destination, pre… Joe Simpson
“ Fear seems to exist only in our imagination. Without imagination, without the ability to see our place in the future, to work out the consequence of a particular event in all its gruesome detail, we w… Joe Simpson
“ We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant. Joe Simpson
“ There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the u… Joe Simpson
“ Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? Joe Simpson
“ He was still grinning, and his confidence was infectious. Who said one man can't rescue another, I thought. We had changed from climbing to rescue, and the partnership had worked just as effectively.… Joe Simpson
“ He had sat numb, repeatedly questioning why his own tumble had been held on the same piton just before the Japanese leader had fallen and ripped it out. A day later he was his normal self again: an ex… Joe Simpson
