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applegrove

(131,600 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2026, 01:33 AM 8 hrs ago

I know it is tiring cutting your losses again and again as an American,

but pretend you are John Krakauer and near the summit of Mt. Everest, and fight on another day to convince another non voter to vote.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1816662-into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mt-everest-disaster

"When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath.… I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again."

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

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I know it is tiring cutting your losses again and again as an American, (Original Post) applegrove 8 hrs ago OP

That book was chilling BaronChocula 5 hrs ago #1

I never followed up on the people in the book. Did not applegrove 5 hrs ago #2

BaronChocula

(4,366 posts)

1. That book was chilling

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:07 AM

5 hrs ago

No pun intended.
And then the climbers in the book that died in accidents after the book was published. But they died doing what they loved.

applegrove

(131,600 posts)

2. I never followed up on the people in the book. Did not

Reply to BaronChocula (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:36 AM

5 hrs ago

know others had died. I loved that book. Harrowing for sure. I finally got why mountain men/women are in it for. All laser focused on one goal. I have hikers in my family, a sister and two brothers, but no climbers. I was going through scary times in my own life so Into Thin Air was a diversion I think.

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