I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end of course it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end of course it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
Jon Krakauer

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He was unheeded happy and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.
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I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end of course it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. Jon Krakauer

I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end of course it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
Jon Krakauer