Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Mountain climbing daredevils apparently hold great attraction for young women.
We are the people our parents warned us about. It'll keep your attention. There are only three sports in life, mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing, all others being games. To those men who are born for mountains, the struggle can never end, until their lives end. The slaughter of the last bastions of traditionalism has begun.