Monday, August 6, 2007

QOTD

"I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it."
- Yvon Chouinard (founder of Chouinard Equipment - now Black Diamond - and Patagonia)


Hanging bivouac in the Black Cave during the first ascent of the North America Wall on El Capitan in October, 1964. Tom Frost is on the top, Royal Robbins in the middle, and poor Yvon Chouinard is on the bottom.


Fitz Roy 3405m in Southern Patagoni, Argentina: (1) Californian Route, 5.11, 55˚, 650m + 300m, Yvon Chouinard, Dick Darworth, Lito Tejada-Flores, Doug Tompkins, Chris Jones, 1968
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2 comments:

  1. brianAugust 7, 2007 at 10:07 AM

    Nice quote. I don't know if any of you saw the NBC special on the 2006 Ironman yesterday, but every one of the racers put it on the line. There was a 76 year old nun running her 20th Ironman; she finished with 1 minute left on the clock (16 hour limit). The crowd went nuts. Then there was the blind guy, and the parapalegic ...

    Anyone else want to run the Ironman?

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  2. kenny gAugust 7, 2007 at 11:24 AM

    Deep down somewhere, I do want to do it, but it is an entirely different animal - long, stow, steady blitzkrieg type of effort. The mental discipline required is extraordinary.

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