The quote featured below was by Albert Einstein. It was was featured prominently inside the front cover - with a picture of the East face of Moose's Tooth - in the 1972 Chouinard Catalog, a collector's item which I have in my mountaineering library. The catalog is most famous for the essay "The Whole Natural Art of Protection," by Doug Robinson. To put things in perspective, the chouinard piolet (70 cm) was listed for $50, custom prescription mountain glasses for $45, salewa wart hogs for $9.00, and knifeblades for $1.85.
A PERFECTION OF MEANS AND A CONFUSION OF AIMS SEEMS TO BE OUR MAIN PROBLEM.
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