I have an armchair fascination with this stuff. Just re-watched some scenes from Touching the Void on Youtube. Awful. Yes. I do think the weird social ammorality of extreme mountain climbing is part of the appeal for some people. Everyone's literally clambering towards that sublime existential moment where one is just an animal struggling for survival on a rock face. It's so decadent and millenial. I love/hate it.
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- sally mckay 12-21-2010 8:06 pm