The most often asked question of anyone who does a dangerous or unique undertaking is "Why?" My altimeter watch shows that I have climbed over 300,000 vertical feet, 90,000 on Everest expeditions alone. I must like it! Here is my clumsy attempt to answer the question for me: Why do you climb? An age-old question first publicly asked in the 1920s of George Mallory during his attempts on ...
Armchair Climber I like to think that I became a mountain climber the late afternoon, evening and night that I frantically read Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air", in the winter of 1997. The big hard cover edition was sitting on a colleague's desk, and since I was alone in the office on a Saturday, I figured he'd left it there for the weekend. I left a note saying that ...
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