I’ve always equated climbing alpine
climbing being in the mountains 22
sounds a little silly but being in love
sometimes it’s very uncomfortable it
makes you do crazy things it can be very
very challenging but at the end of the
day it’s it’s the most beautiful
experience that you can have you know
it’s it’s it’s being in love with the
natural world and experiencing it in
relationship I have to say that I think
growing up in Wyoming was fundamental to
learning how to live with the wind in
the cold learning how to build a decent
snow cape and had kind of the classic
Huck Finn childhood hunting and fishing
I think I first discovered my
relationship with climbing through my
through my parents and just being in the
mountains with my dad as a child with my
mom as a child led us to have much
tighter bonds that’s what helped you
know our relationship survive
adolescents and everything I mean it’s
the mountains with something we always
had together and when you start going to
the big mountains and you’re with
partners that you are relying on to keep
you alive those those bonds are pretty
hard to break you’re not driven by
rational decisions you’re driven by
passion you need to try to set aside
your passion and moments of extreme
danger and make the most rational
decision but in my life I’ve been driven
entirely by passion and curiosity and
the desire to write a story you’re not
going to go out and suffer on a big
mountain unless you’re passionate about
climbing what’s the point I mean it’s
very much like writing a story or
writing a book it’s a lot of suffering
so there’s got to be something more
going on and it’s the passion for the
experience this happened it’s moving
you
climbing being in the mountains 22
sounds a little silly but being in love
sometimes it’s very uncomfortable it
makes you do crazy things it can be very
very challenging but at the end of the
day it’s it’s the most beautiful
experience that you can have you know
it’s it’s it’s being in love with the
natural world and experiencing it in
relationship I have to say that I think
growing up in Wyoming was fundamental to
learning how to live with the wind in
the cold learning how to build a decent
snow cape and had kind of the classic
Huck Finn childhood hunting and fishing
I think I first discovered my
relationship with climbing through my
through my parents and just being in the
mountains with my dad as a child with my
mom as a child led us to have much
tighter bonds that’s what helped you
know our relationship survive
adolescents and everything I mean it’s
the mountains with something we always
had together and when you start going to
the big mountains and you’re with
partners that you are relying on to keep
you alive those those bonds are pretty
hard to break you’re not driven by
rational decisions you’re driven by
passion you need to try to set aside
your passion and moments of extreme
danger and make the most rational
decision but in my life I’ve been driven
entirely by passion and curiosity and
the desire to write a story you’re not
going to go out and suffer on a big
mountain unless you’re passionate about
climbing what’s the point I mean it’s
very much like writing a story or
writing a book it’s a lot of suffering
so there’s got to be something more
going on and it’s the passion for the
experience this happened it’s moving
you
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