"Mountaineers or something else?"
On the mountain, we are mountain men or "people of the mountain".
On the mountain, we are tied together in the "human element".
On the mountain, our "weaknesses become our strengths".
On the mountain, we become all that we can be.
On the mountain, our "foes become our friends".
On the mountain, we work together to fuel "our greatest hopes and dreams".
On the mountain, we let the "beast from within" run wild and free.
On the mountain, the true "self" is found.
Only on the mountain.
We are mountaineers.
We are the people of the mountains.
We are "lovers" of high adventure, and great quests, of great spirits (...), and of great times.
We are "haters of despair and depression and all things negative".
We the mountain people wish "to discover the meaning(s) of life".
We are mountaineers, we follow the footsteps of "the expeditions written in the chapters of history".
We "blaze" new roads of "fire and self-discovery".
Some fall, some die, but we remember them in our hearts as members of "the team".
We are a team which lives to "lead the rest" and discover the unknown.
We are here for each other to, "find our weaknesses and make them our greatest strengths."
Thus we become "human", or "members of the team." - nothing more and never anything less.
Charles N. Whittemore
July 7th, 2014
