Tuesday, August 16, 2016

ALPINIST 54 ... great issue

The article by Rick Accomazzo is worth the price of the issue. His reflections on his early ice climbing career with Tobin Sorenson, on Valley desperates like Widows Tears is priceless. The quote of the week should be his paraphrasing of Donald Rumsfield's notorious response:

"There are things you know, the things you know you don't know, and then the things you don't know that you don't now." While it might not have been an appropriate answer for starting a war, it is something climbers should be mindful of, as it's the last item which occasionally gets us killed.

Of course, the issue has other great articles: climbing in the footsteps of Reinhold Messner, the history of imaginary mountains, and the article about Darwin's Disappointment.