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The only philosophical novel about climbing I ever read was Kerouac’s Dharma Bums.  The scramble up the Matterhorn in the Sierras is fabulous.  Ray, the narrator, is enthusiastic, set on going to the top, but in fact becomes more and more terrified. “This is too high!” he yells to his friend Japhy, he can’t go on.  He finds aContinue reading “You Can’t Fall Off a Mountain”