[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.
Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.111, Penguin
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