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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (45617)	2/24/2006 1:19:13 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 90947

I agree with Willie's observation, but not his response to it. I think life is sacred, and to risk it unnecessarily is a sin. ...The key to Unsoeld's evangelical credo about mountain climbing is that we have become alienated from our bodies and our "selves" because we're alienated from nature; that the experience of nature is so mysterious, so powerful and so fascinating that it cannot be put into words; that intense experience, to the point of putting your life at risk, is a path to discovering your bliss. He argues repeatedly that words cannot substitute for experience; to prove his point he even drags an audience member onto the stage (a foundation executive with one of the Arden's principal funders the night I saw it) to do a simple physical trust exercise.