#willi unsoeld

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Risk is at the heart of all education.

Willi Unsoeld, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel

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Hornbein on the west ridge of Everest // Willi Unsoeld

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Why don’t you stay in the wilderness? Because that isn’t where it is at; it’s back in the city, back in downtown St. Louis, back in Los Angeles. The final test is whether your experience of the sacred in nature enables you to cope more effectively with the problems of people. If it does not enable you to cope more effectively with the problems - and sometimes it doesn’t, it sometimes sucks you right out into the wilderness and you stay there the rest of your Life - then when that happens, by my scale of value; it’s failed. You go to nature for an experience of the sacred...to re-establish your contact with the core of things, where it’s really at, in order to enable you to come back to the world of people and operate more effectively. Seek ye first the kingdom of nature, that the kingdom of man might be realized.

Willi B. Unsoeld, mountaineer and OSC's Adventure Club founder; first ascent of the west ridge of Mt. Everest in 1963, where he lost 9 toes. Died in an avalanche on Mt. Rainier, which he summited more than 200 times.

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Willi Unsoeld and Barry Bishop on the West Ridge

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Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations -- you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself.

Willi Unsoeld, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel