Jane Austin 'Pride and Prejudice'

The Himalayan germ once caught,works inside one like a relapsing fever: it is ever biding its time before breaking out again with renewed virulence, Dr Longstaff had warned when we set out "once a man has found the road he can never keep away for long" 

Peaks and Lamas by Marco Palils

There are 3 essential attributes for a Himalayan climber: alpine experience, a strong stomach and the ability to acclimatize. 

authored by Rob Collister  in 1978-79

The story of Nanga Parbat is a long one. It is a tragic and in many ways a puzzling story. Human nature, ever inexhaustible, offers here another facet for study. But Nanga Parbat has been climbed. The dead in their vast and icy tomb may sleep.

"One does not climb to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because he is enlightened."    — Zen Master Futomaki

“The Ultimate Manifestation of Mountain Grandeur”

"For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread."    —  Maurice Herzog

“...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.” 
― Reinhold Messner

"For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread."    —  Maurice Herzog

"None of the books or photographs studied before leaving home had even slightly prepared me for such majesty. Truly this is something that does have to be seen to be believed, and that once seen must be continually yearned for when left behind, becoming as incurable a fever of the spirit as malaria is of the body."