13 Quotes by 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, preferably by something fast and exciting, such as a sports car or a helicopter.

Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling.

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 experience absorbed, shelved in his memory, understood and accepted, and left at that.

We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant.