Ep. 188: Yvon Chouinard on Belonging to Nature
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The Importance of Survival in Climbing
"I was in an avalanche in uh in Tibet in my later years of expedition climbing and and um I was with my friend Rick Ridgeway and some friends and so we rode out to Savilance and one of the guys was killed" "We buried him right there. Climbers are not the kind of people that would call in helicopters and pay for a first-class ticket to take the body back," he says. The purpose of climbing like Everest or something is to affect some sort of personal and physical gain but when you compromise the process the way it's so badly, John writes.
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