yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

For the Love of the Climb | Explorer


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] I've always equated climbing, Alpine climbing, being in the mountains to, it sounds a little silly, but being in love. Sometimes it's very uncomfortable; it makes you do crazy things. It can be very, very challenging, but at the end of the day, it's the most beautiful experience that you can have. You know, it's being in love with the natural world and experiencing it in relationship.

I have to say that I think growing up in Wyoming was fundamental to learning how to live with the wind and the cold, learning how to build a decent snow cave and had kind of the classic Huck Finn childhood—hunting and fishing. I think I first discovered my relationship with climbing through my parents and just being in the mountains with my dad as a child, with my mom as a child. That led us to have much tighter bonds.

That's what helped, you know, our relationships survive adolescence and everything. I mean, the mountains were something we always had together. When you start going to the big mountains and you're with partners that you are relying on to keep you alive, those bonds are pretty hard to break.

You're not driven by rational decisions; you're driven by passion. You need to try to set aside your passion in moments of extreme danger and make the most rational decision. But in my life, I've been driven entirely by passion and curiosity and the desire to write a story.

You're not going to go out and suffer on a big mountain unless you're passionate about climbing. What's the point? I mean, it's very much like writing a story or writing a book; it's a lot of suffering. So, there's got to be something more going on, and it's the passion for the experience that's happening. It's moving you.

More Articles

View All
The Lost City of Chan Chan | Lost Cities with Albert Lin
I’m headed to the lost city of Chanchan, once the beating heart of the mighty Chimu Empire. Is that a pyramid? I think that’s a pyramid, a pyramid at Chanchan. Can I find answers inside the city walls as to why the children had to die? Built over a thousa…
Why it's so hard to get anything done
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but it seems like the more things that you have to do, the harder it is to do pretty much anything. Like, you have this long list of tasks and responsibilities that seems to be growing longer and longer and longer…
Exploring Toxic Ice Caves Inside an Active Volcano | Expedition Raw
The cave entrances are all along the side of the rim. We’re walking along the summit of Mount Rainier on our way to the East Crater Cave to make a three-dimensional map. So if someone gets lost or hurts, it’s easier to conduct a search and rescue operatio…
Monopsony employers and minimum wages
We’ve already talked about the notion of a monopsony employer in other videos, but now we’re going to review it a little bit, and we’re going to introduce a twist. The twist is what happens when they have to deal with a minimum wage, and as we’ll see, it’…
4 Examples Of Shadow Behavior | Q&A #6 | August 2019
Hello everyone. August is almost over. So, it’s time for another Q&A, which is number six already. In this public Q&A, I’ll talk about the shadow, because my recent video about this topic got a lot of questions and feedback. I think that’s a great…
Introduction to proteins and amino acids | High school biology | Khan Academy
What we’re going to do in this video is talk about proteins. Some of you all might already be familiar with them, at least in some context. If you look at any type of packaging on food, you’ll oftentimes see a label that has protein listed in a certain nu…