Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Hudson Stuck

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Hudson Stuck was a British native who became an Episcopal priest, social reformer and mountain climber in the United States. With Harry P. Karstens, he co-led the first expedition to successfully climb Denali in June 1913, via the South Summit. He published five books about his years in Alaska. Two memoirs were issued in new editions in 1988, including his account of the ascent of Denali.

English - Explorer | November 11, 1865 - October 10, 1920

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The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

Hudson Stuck

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

Hudson Stuck

A pupil is a great resource.

Hudson Stuck

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

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

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Hudson Stuck

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

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

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

Hudson Stuck

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Hudson Stuck

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