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How extreme sports can become escape from human intimacy

Every time I go ice climbing I think about my ex-wife saying I care more about mountains than people, and she wasn't wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The vertical world offers a refuge from the horizontal complexities of relationship.

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“Where Are You with Extreme sports and the examined life?”

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