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A famous climber wrote this in his diary and it is quoted in his biography:

 

"A great hardness is setting in, and I am increasingly able to treat the petty and the mundane with utter contempt...I will do many things for people I respect, and for fools nothing. They deserve to be trampled on."

 

Any guesses as to who [smile] it might surprise you!

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JON Muir is a crazy Australian guy from Arapiles who climbed Everest and wears hand sewn rabbit fur clothes.

 

Naw you are all still way off. Here are two hints.

 

1) It is a guy, who is dead now.

 

2) It was written in the 1960's.

 

So much for Twight, Stevie Haston, etc.

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Originally posted by trask:

George Lowe?

 

"Live it up, fill your cup, drown your sorrow

And sow your wild oats while ye may

For the toothless old tykes of tomorrow

Were the Tigers of Yesterday."

-- Tom Patey

No but you are getting closer...

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