looking for quote source

[wayne]

Writing an article and looking for a complete quote and source please. If you recognize it please help, thanks

 

Goes something like this: " During a mans youth, he can be content to learn his craft around his local crags, but in the storm of his manhood, he should be testing his skills in the great glaciated ranges of the world"

Chouinard, Rebuffat?

[cam yarder]

"A mountaineer may be satisfied to nurse his athletic infancy upon home rocks, and he may be happy to pass the later years of his experience among the more elusive impressions and more subtle romance of our old and quiet hills. But in the storm years of his strength he should test his powers, learn his craft and earn his triumphs in conflict with the abrupt youth and warlike habit of great glacial ranges."

 

-geoffery winthrop young

Edited April 6, 2014 by cam yarder

[wayne]

Hmm a bit wordy, but thanks