You Climb To The Summit And There

We Choose To Believe That The Granite Is Alive. If Life Is Movement, Then Rock - With Its Atoms Flying Around Like Stars In Cosmos - Is Alive.

I Say The Last 10 Percent Of The Way To Perfection Takes So Much Of Your Life That It Isn't Worth The Effort. This Overzealous Attitude Is What Creates Religious Fanatics, Body Nazis, And Athletes Who Are Exceedingly Dull To Converse With.

Traveling Is My Form Of Self-education. Every Stream I Fish Now Is Not As Good As It Used To Be. Traveling Is My Form Of Self-education. Every Stream I Fish Now Is Not As Good As It Used To Be. If You Keep Your Eyes Open As You Travel Around, You Realize We Are Destroying This Planet.

Just Why Is Yosemite Climbing So Different ? Why Does It Have Techniques, Ethics And Equipment All Of Its Own ? The Basic Reason Lies In The Rock Itself. Nowhere Else In The World Is The Rock So Exfoliated, So Glacier-polished And So Devoid Of Handholds. All Of The Climbing Lines Follow Vertical Crack Systems. Every Piton Crack, Every Handhold Is A Vertical One. Special Techniques And Equipment Have Evolved Through Absolute Necessity.

You Climb To The Summit And There Is Nothing There.