“High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks--chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring, [meandering in the desert with one’s comrades]”

“I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.” - Walter Bonatti

A survival story.

“When the cities are gone, he thought, and all the ruckus has died away…maybe free men and wild women on horses, free women and wild men, can roam the sagebrush canyonlands in freedom—goddammit!”