Messner's Museums of the Mountains

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B the Hiker

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The museums sound fascinating. The review itself is a work of art.

"No sport encourages the ostensibly paradoxical impulses of meditative, in-the-moment focus and past-tense memorializing quite like mountain climbing. It seems that everyone who has even dabbled in the endeavor has gone on to document it. A mountain presents not just an invitation to climb it but also a provocation to represent that climb. How to do it in a way that begins to approximate the scale of even a small hill?"

Brian

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/t-magazine/austria-museums-mountains.html?_r=0
 
If I were him, I'd wander the Whites for a week wearing sneakers and a T-shirt, looking to see what kind of comments I could draw "Sir, do you know how dangerous these mountains are??"
 
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