Alpinists at the top of the food chain have a long history of "putting their money where their mouth is," so to speak. Messner derided us for bolting because we were keeping our courage in a rucksack in his seminal essay, "The Murder of the Impossible." Chouinard urged us on to ethical purity, and challenged us to take our Valley techniques and use them in the big, hard, dangerous mountains of the world in his essay "Coonyards Mouth Off." Doug Robinson said leave the pitons home, and just take a rack of nuts in, "The Whole Art of Natural Protection." Recently Steve House has weighed in on the current alpine climbing scene, click on this text to access his essay.
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