Quotes About Expedition

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

Waterways would offer the easiest route across country, but any travel was a hardship. Most who traveled understood why the word "travel" had once been "travail.

across the blacktop

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

Let your fingers do the walking.

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

In 53 B.C., Crassus commanded an expedition against the Parthian empire

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

I know a lot of people in the aviation business, particularly ones who will fly to places where your boots get dirty when you get out of the airplane.

People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.

The hardest climb for me was Kangchenjunga, at 28,169 feet the world's third-highest mountain. The first thing that made this summit difficult was the speed that I climbed and summited two 8,000-er's, back-to-back.

Philip was ideally suited to lead the expedition against the Persian 'barbarians'.

the Greeks mounted a mighty expedition to bring her back.

La route est plus large que longue.

The more we dig this world, the more prisoners we become

as had been the situation on other commercial expeditions, I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

Five men went forward, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Seaman Evans. They reached the Pole on January 17 to find that Amundsen had reached it thirty-four days earlier. They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters.

From the masthead one can see a few patches of open water in different directions, but the main outlook is the same scene of desolate hummocky pack.

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.