Adventure on the Edge

" There is equally little doubt that mountaineering today takes what it has always taken: Courage, the ability to endure and the triumph of the mind. It is a curious fact, I think that the real beauty, drama and interest of mountaineering is not the mountains themselves, not even the physical aspect of their conquest but what goes on in the mind of men and woman who climb the far peaks. No- one sees further, clearer, deeper than those whose life is hanging by fingertips on the edge of the abyss" - Jon E Lewis.