first great merit of the mountaineer: never give up, do not be discouraged, insisting, stubbornly hold on, resist. According
great value: knowing when to drop the case instead. Not to despair, but for rational calculation (that sometimes things are not so easy to distinguish, there is the rub).
One famous case is the one told by Krakauer in Into Thin Air : quell'alpinista Swedish party bike (bicycle) from Sweden, had made pedaling across Asia Minor, and then Persia, then India and up to Kathmandu, and then walk up Everest, and then he climbed alone, and had come up to a hundred meters from the summit, where he had seen fit to give up.
the rope that had risen after him but he insisted, had made it, had reached the summit: and then you know how it ended (ten deaths, including those more experienced).
(Swedish, then he tried again, in the days following, and has done it)
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