How much of the appeal of mountaineering lies in its simplification of interpersonal relationships, its reduction of friendship to smooth interaction {like war}, its substitution of an Other {the mountain, the challenge} for the relationship itself? Behind a mystique of adventure, toughness, footloose vagabondage-all much needed antidotes to our culture's built-in comfort and convenience-may lie a kind of adolescent refusal to take seriously aging, the frailty of others, interpersonal responsibility, weakness of all kinds, the slow and unspectacular course of life itself.… {T}op
( Jon Krakauer )
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