The American alpinist Mark Twight summed up the sentiment of many climbers and pundits alike when he wrote, “I think posers have polluted mountaineering. They replace skills and courage with cash and equipment. They make the summit, not the style, the yardstick of success . . . Now I’m embarrassed to call myself a climber, because close on the heels of the admission some dilettante will ask whether I’ve read Into Thin Air or done Everest.”
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