There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.
Climbing is what I do.
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.
Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
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