Greg Enright wrote:Not only that, there are so many ways to climb a mountain, why always take the easy way?
Anyone can take the aesthetic route up solid granite walls with perfect hand jams, knobby dikes, and cracks that take pro nicely. To face 3,000ft of shifting sand and talus in the baking sun that you know will both physically exhaust you and mentally bore you to tears - and do it anyways - well, that's the stuff that real climbers are made of.