FYI ... No mountaineering, skiing, or training content in this post.
But, more than a decade ago, NCS alumnus Richard Rockefeller suggested one of Stephenson's books (The Diamond Age) to me. I listened to it as an audiobook, and it was thoroughly enjoyable. It seems that most of Stephenson's sci-fi is dystopian; I think it falls into the cyberpunk genre, whatever that is! However, the guy knows how to turn a phrase.
In Snow Crash, the hero (Hiro Protagonist) is a pizza delivery guy, brilliant hacker, and a warrior prince. And one of his many quotable quotes:
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest mother-fucker in the world."
A problem for Hiro, but I suspect also a problem for a lot of young male climbers and skiers.
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