Failed in the most beautiful way

// October 1st, 2009 // Crisis

“They were decent,” he said. “They were strong. And they failed in the most beautiful way you can imagine.”

- Reinhold Messner, the famed mountain climber, praising the members of a doomed 1953 trek to climb K-2.

Charles S. Houston, one of the members of that expedition, passed away this week. (NY Times)

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