Adventure Quote by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

“The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are complicated, exhausting, often life-threatening. Risk is the fuel that keeps them going.” quote by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi — Download Open image

“The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are complicated, exhausting, often life-threatening. Risk is the fuel that keeps them going.”

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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