I also like hunting elk and antelope. Hunting was an absolute part of growing up in Wyoming. So many people don't take trips because they don't feel they have all the information they need. Places like Turkey or the former Soviet republics daunt people who wonder where they'll stay or what they'll eat. Get used to making decisions in the moment.
Mountains are powerful narcotics.
They can wreck lives and end marriages. And they never diminish in importance. Once there's a mountain you can't get out of your mind, by some magnetism a team assembles to climb it. Sometimes they're folks you haven't met. For a climb, the mountain is 50 percent of the formula and people are the other 50 percent.