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“I would not argue that it has been a choice that has been easy for my family or those close to me. How do you explain obsessive love to someone who does not share your passion? How do you rationalize the contradictions of climbing: its brilliant triviality and sublime uselessness, its beauty and hardship? Or more significantly, how in these days of record-breaking financial expansion do you justify the anti-capitalist notion of putting your life at risk to achieve something so difficult, so utterly and completely demanding…and then just turning around and walking away from it? The answer is that you can’t, of course. There is no common sense to it. It is a lousy way to get rich and a very imperfect path to enlightenment. Yet the older I get the more clear it becomes to me that if in the end all that remains to us are our memories, then among the misfired synapses and disorderly recollections of my old age will be the faces, places, and adventures of a life well spent. And that, I think, will be quite enough.”
“Stone Palaces” by: Geof Childs