How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Seeing white wild country again, and watching the Bedford struggling over this "highway" at fifteen miles an hour, [Mortenson] had a renewed appreciation for just how thoroughly these mountains and gorges cut Baltistan off from the world. (7.29)
Traveling through Pakistan is hard. The roads aren't like the Interstates in the U.S., they're more like the roads probably were when Model Ts were still on the road.
Quote #8
Though this lunar rockscape in the western Karakoram has to be one of the most forbidding on Earth, Mortenson felt he had come home. (7.49)
"Lunar rockscape" is a great way to describe these mountains. They're so impressive and strange it's hard to believe they even exist on Earth.
Quote #9
The busy street, lined with narrow stalls selling soccer balls, cheap Chinese sweaters, and neatly arranged pyramids of foreign treasure like Ovaltine and Tang, seemed overwhelmingly cosmopolitan after the deafening emptiness of the Indus Gorge. (8.3)
This is a great view of the teeming marketplace in Pakistan. It's not unlike street vendors in New York City, except in Pakistan, powdered drink products are exotic.