Climbing Wisdom

I found this quote on Mountain Project this morning and loved the essence of it so much that I thought I'd post it for those of you who think that climbing high mountains and cliffs might be slightly wacko. I think it sums it up well.
'The story of mountaineering is a story of faith and affirmation-that the high road is the good road; that there are still among us those who are willing to struggle and suffer greatly for wholly ideal ends; that security is not the be-all and end-all of living; that there are conquests to be won in the world other than over our fellow man. The climbing of the earth's heights in itself means little. That men want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that man is never so much a man as when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against his own ignorance and fear.'

- From "The Age of Mountaineering"
Cheers to that!