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That's why I found this passage particularly interesting: Setting aside the fact that putting yourself in danger because 'death is random' is terrible reasoning,
I do understand that need to feel alive. Don't we all have that from time to time?When I spoke to her, nearly 10 months after her son’s death, I said that I thought I’d probably be angry at climbing, at climbers, at the whole world of outdoor adventure. But she isn’t, she said. She deals with death every day in the hospital. “I’ve seen it happen a million times,” she told me. “And it happens so randomly. It can happen when you’re crossing the street and it can happen in Peru. So you might as well live, you know?”