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Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

Hermann Buhl
Climbing, Drug, Feelings
Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books
Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.