I’d always known that climbing
mountains was a high-risk pursuit. I accepted that danger was an essential
component of the game—without it, climbing would be little different from a
hundred other trifling diversions. It was titillating to brush up against the
enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing
was a magnificent activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent
perils, but precisely because of them.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air:
A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, 1997
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A perfect description of what climbing a mountain must feel like.
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