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A grammar of ascent.

Publication: National Review
Publication Date: 18-AUG-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A grammar of ascent.(ESSAY)(mountaineer)

Article Excerpt
O the mind, mind has mountains ... --Gerard Manley Hopkins

I WONDER about the choices we make to get on the margins of reality. There are many realities, and many vanishing points, but the one on my mind right now is mountaineering.

I recently spent a week in Alaska trying to learn how to be a mountaineer. I did not succeed very well, and the details are not very interesting. I finished the course (I was enrolled in a course) thinking that perhaps I am better off remaining a slightly-above-average mountain dilettante. An occasional rock climber. A good skier (preferably on teles, sometimes where there are no lifts). And always within a half hour of a dinner that requires a tip. Real mountaineering tends...

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