Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
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.
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.
Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
I climb mountains.