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the only direction stubborn enough to argue with gravity and win.
means To move upward, often with effort, by using your hands, feet, or sheer determination against a slope, surface, or scale.
from From Old English 'climban,' part of a hardworking Germanic family — a cousin of German 'klimmen' and Dutch 'klimmen' — likely sharing a root with words meaning 'to cling' or 'grip,' since early climbing was less about elegance and more about not letting go. That buried 'b' you don't quite pronounce is a fossil from when it was sounded out loud, a leftover handhold from older English.
- Death zone
- Above 8000m, your body slowly dies regardless
- Free solo
- Honnold climbed El Cap with zero ropes
- Brain trick
- Looking up makes slopes feel steeper
- Oldest urge
- Babies climb stairs before they can speak
- Down is worse
- Most mountaineering deaths happen on descent
mount everest — 29,032 ft peak in nepal/china, summited by ~5,000 people since 1953
el capitan — 3,000 ft granite monolith in yosemite valley, california, climbed daily by hundreds
kilimanjaro — 19,341 ft volcano in tanzania, ~50,000 climbers per year