climbing

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30a99de	The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.	accomplishment perseverance persistence strength motivational success heart inspirational achievement climbing try-again adversity encouragement anger falling	Criss Jami
9296fcd	Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.	dance climbing hiking rock rhythm	Jack Kerouac
0c27341	I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.	krakauer into-the-wild climbing	Jon Krakauer
ea112bd	Think only on the climb. Think on what you control	climbing	Lois Lowry
70cba04	"STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there?	experiences writing life finally top climbing	Neil Strauss
761265d	"Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones." -John Gill-"	philosophy climbing sport	Jon Krakauer
f3ee70e	But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was on top of the Devil's Thumb. Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. It did not encourage loitering. As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty-five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance.	summit devil-s-thumb climbing	Jon Krakauer

30a99de

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

accomplishment perseverance persistence strength motivational success heart inspirational achievement climbing try-again adversity encouragement anger falling

Criss Jami

9296fcd

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

dance climbing hiking rock rhythm

Jack Kerouac

0c27341

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

krakauer into-the-wild climbing

Jon Krakauer

ea112bd

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

climbing

Lois Lowry

70cba04

"STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there?

experiences writing life finally top climbing

Neil Strauss

761265d

"Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones." -John Gill-"

philosophy climbing sport

Jon Krakauer

f3ee70e

But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was on top of the Devil's Thumb. Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. It did not encourage loitering. As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty-five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance.

summit devil-s-thumb climbing

Jon Krakauer