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People ask me, ‘What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?’ and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron… If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.”

George Mallory  (via alpinistoamericano)

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Into the white

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Untitled by Keitha Haycock [rambling woman]

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Gokyo Ri summit

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Kangtega view from Dole Village

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Bhoti Kosi valley

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The Himalayas from 20,000 ft. from Teton Gravity Research on Vimeo.

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Facing the Breithorn by nbeltram

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Volcán de Colima

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The Alpinist by vacaondra

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Mount Hood appreciation post.

Oregon’s highest point is, fittingly, the summit of a huge stratovolcano. Rising to 3,426 meters, the mighty volcano towers above all else, offering views from Mount Rainier in the north to (on a clear day) Shasta in the south. 

Her native name is Wy’east, and represents a boisterous brave confined to stone for fighting over a lovely woman (also turned to stone as St. Helens, Loowit), and oral tradition over thousands of years mentions many eruptions and volcanic activities. The first historical eruption took place around 1797, when lahars (mudflows) traveled down the Sandy River into the Columbia, observed again in 1803 (possibly) and in 1859-1963 as eruptions visible from nearby Portland. The 1797 eruptive period is called the Old Maid Period, and is responsible for pumice and ash deposits on the area of the mountain these photos were taken from, and quite probably responsible for the large rock in the crater near the summit, called Crater Rock. That large rhyolite/andesite dome is approximately 300 years old. 

I have filmed a BetterGeology about this volcano, but there was extreme winds and cold, so I may have to trek up to the mountain’s shoulder and do it all over again (how unfortunate). More photos from this trip can be viewed on my Flickr.

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Mount Hunter’s North Face by alasdairturner

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Sunrise breakfast on a portaledge

photo: Klaus Fengler

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Arnaud Petit and Stéphanie Bodet on Salto Angel, Venezuela

photo: Nicolas Kalisz

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Jimmy Chin climbing somewhere in the Tetons.

SOURCE VIDEO: Never Stop - Jimmy Chin [3:35] by The North Face [YouTube]

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