Not only during the ascent but also during the descent my will-power is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing-and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is-like death through freezing-a pleasant one. Reinhold Messner The Crystal Horizon
( Jon Krakauer )
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