Hudson Stuck Quotes

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

I was freezing in that loincloth.

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

I shot a lingerie campaign in Munich once during the winter, and it was actually snowing. At one point, my body literally turned blue, and we had to stop for 20 minutes to get my temperature back to normal. I kept telling myself, 'Try not think about the cold,' but that's extremely hard when you feel like your toes are about to fall off.

In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

I'd just as soon freeze to death.

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below. I could see callers' breath coming out of my phone.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.

I'm not a fan of cold weather.

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.