Sarah Hall Quotes

I now walk into the wild.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I like adventure.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

We were very scared. Going to America was almost like going to the moon.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.

I have always said that a mountain without danger is not a mountain.

I like to find adventure.

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.