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Thanks for your good post, it can be said that climbing is a combination of morality, danger, writing, and adventure, which actually brings back the human being to his original.

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Interesting thought on 'bringing the human being back to his/her original' - does climbing tap into instincts formed by evolution during our time as hunter-gatherers?

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Please explain your question more clearly, thanks

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Eating, and sex, are pleasures with obvious survival value for ourselves or descendants. And it seems clear that these instinctive pleasures have been hard-wired into us by evolution. But can evolution really have built into us an instinctive delight in mountaineering, given that mountaineering can often lead to death? or should we consider going up hills and rocks as just cultural conditioning?

Sorry for being a bit slow picking up on this comment thread. But the question 'what is mountaineering for? Why is it fun?' will continue to come up in this newsletter.

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