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• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is…
• Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there…
• We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild…
• The more you know, the less you need.
• How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top
• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't…
• The more I make the more I can give away.
• We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
• ...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the…
• The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen…
• Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
• The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor,…

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