For climbers, the mountain is a stone tablet upon which God writes secret messages. The wisdom of the ages and all a climber needs to know is written on the mountain. Climbers are like long-board surfers back in the 1950s in Santa Cruz when it wasn't necessarily cool to be a beach bum because the world didn't know what a beach bum was yet. It was simply enough to be stylin' in the surf. Life is not so much a journey as it is a ride.
Climbers just take the ride a little higher and a little farther.
Mountain climbers climb to a place inside of themselves called Fear. And when they finish the climb, mountain climbers don't end up at the top of the mountain . . . They don't end up at the summit. Mountain climbers end up at the sky. But it's a sky like no other . . .