Cooped Up? Get Uncooped.

A thought-provoking quote from High Exposures: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other Unforgiving Places, by the renowned high-altitude filmmaker David Breashears:

"I rounded out my reading with books about Rudolf Nureyev. I was thoroughly impressed by his grace, sense of craft, and dazzling skill. I was already beginning to look on climbing not just as a sport, but as a form of expression. The quality of the ascent was becoming as important to me as the ascent itself. When you first begin climbing, it's natural to sweat and lunge and slap your way to the top. But young as I was, I was no longer a novice. I wanted to make my climbing an expression of competence and grace."

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