High Aspirations: Climbing and Self-Cultivation

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationClimbing - Philosophy for Everyone
Subtitle of host publicationBecause It's There
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages65-80
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9781444334869
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 3 2010

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • "destroyed by excess or defect, and preserved by the mean"
  • Jack Turner calls "gross contact"
  • Moral virtue operates on a sort of "Goldilocks Principle"
  • Quest for the Summit: Cultivating the Climber
  • Reinhold Messner called the "murder of the impossible"
  • Reverence for the Natural World
  • Steve House, "the simpler we make things, the richer the experience"

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