“He felt a crude ecstasy. He could not have given the reason, but the mountain tormented him, beckoned him, held an answer to something he wanted. It was so pure, so austere.”

On Sgt. Sam Croft and Mt. Anaka, in Pt. 3, Ch. 3
The Naked and the Dead (1948)

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