Escape not "from" but "to" reality.

"We need to learn again those essential qualities in our own selves which make us what we are: the energy of our bodies, the alertness of our minds, curiosity and the desire to satisfy it, fear and the will to conquer it.  The mountain way may well be a way of escape -- from the cities and men, from the turmoil and doubt, from the perplexities and uncertainties and sorrows that thread our lives.  But in the truest and most profound sense it is an escape not from but to reality." -- James Ramsey Ullman, in The West Ridge by Thomas F. Hornbein