Climbing Quote of the Week: Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey, park ranger, fire lookout, writer, and sometime climber, on ascending Mount Tukuhnikivats in the La Sal Mountains above Moab, Utah:

“Then why climb Tukuhnikivats? Because I prefer to. Because no one else will if I don’t—and somebody has to do it. Because it is the most dramatic in form of the La Sals, the most conspicuous and beautiful as seen from my terrace in the Arches. Because, finally, I like the name. Tukuhnikivats—in the language of the Utes ‘where the sun lingers.’”

Buy Edward Abbey’s classic book Desert Solitaire.

Photo above: The La Sal Mountains, including Tukuhnikivats, rise beyond sandstone fins at Arches National Park, Utah. Photograph © Stewart M. Green

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