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| The second kind of person is the Camper. They’ll actually take strides in facing difficult situations but they will only go so far. As far as they feel comfortable, like a climber who reaches base camp and says “that’s far enough”. The only thing is, there is more mountain to climb. The end result is they don’t summit, they don’t reach their full potential. On the same mountain of Manaslu a different expedition spent a great deal of time and energy reaching Camp 2 at 22,000 feet. The climbers were strong and worked so hard to get to that point. However, after several storms, which dumped several meters of snow that buried camps and destroyed tents, they all turned around and left. For them, reaching 22,000 feet was good enough. The only thing was, there was more mountain to climb.
The third and final kind of person is the Climber. How many times have you heard mountains or the sport of climbing related to life? You hear it in songs on the radio, you read it in books, you even hear Oprah using the power of the climbing metaphor in helping others. Why? Because climbing is what life is.
In order to succeed, one must learn how to fail or more importantly what to do when one does fail. Practically every day on Manaslu it started to snow around 10 o’clock in the morning. At times it snowed so heavy that our team had to wait for days up at extreme altitudes, sitting in our tent bored to death, just waiting for conditions to be safe from avalanches only to return to base camp. Page Four
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