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Why We Climb: Piolet d’Or Honorees on the Value of a Life in the Mountains
Posted by Ian Welsted on March 30, 2014
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The first night of the 22nd Piolets d’Or, Kazakh climber Denis Urubko summed it up: Mountains (and oceans) are the last wild places on Earth. We go to these places to remember we are humans in nature, to seek lessons from the wild, and to get away from the trappings of human civilization. But as humans…
