The great irony about climbing the eight thousanders is this: hubris on those mountains will get you killed, but it requires a great deal of hubris to climb those mountains in the first place. Or is that just me? I love mountaineering stories, even though I have zero desire to crawl up one myself. I guess it’s the niche equivalent of watching football rather than playing it. Even if I had had the desire to put myself through something so strenuous, then Jon Krakauer’s Into […]