Your resume may be impressive, but mine is better. Why?
I have numerous friends I climb with, they are guides, engineers, doctors, rangers, students, and unemployed dirtbags. They may have written guidebooks, may have been guides, may even have criminal records, but that is really irrelivant. The fact is this, they are wonderful people whom I share pitches, pitchers and good times.
You may think you have a great resume by association, but my resume is great because I enjoy climbing more than you do.
I am just as happy instructing a fledgling climber up their first climb as I am finishing my first 5.11d (a first ascent by the way).
I have friends all over north and south america who can offer up a rope, a rack and a place to sleep.
I have both saved lives, and have had my life saved.
I have seen incredible sights, and have shared wonderful stories around campstoves, campfires, and dark ales.
I have learned that climbing is really not about what, how, or how hard you climb at all.
There are always more lessons to be learned, never assume you are better.
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"And the mountains shall bring them peace" - Conrad Kain
"Oh the wonders I have seen" - Dr. Seuss
Please forward this email to 10 of your closest friends and have them do the same and so on or you and your whole family will die of a thousand plagues.