#note/sourcereview/book ## What is the thesis? Climbing is inherently dangerous, as are all activities. What dangers we control vs don't control, and what danger we are willing and able to tolerate and accept will impact us in ways we cannot understand. ## Am I convinced and why? For sure. While the foursome in this book took on an outsized adventure, the adventure also contained many unknown and un-mitigable risks. ## Summarize the argument Some activities, like sport climbing on popular routes, are quite safe although do have increased risk. Others, like leading up unclimbed routes, have extreme levels of risk that cannot be mitigated. ## What is the other side of the argument? People do get injured and killed in everyday activities. ## What else do I wonder about? What is worth it to me to take risks on? What about my identity, and my pure pleasure and experience, are worth the risk? ## Action "If Emmett and Lauren had concerns, they didn't voice them." Continue to create conditions of safety habits (belay check) and creating space for concerns being aired. ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/risk | #on/decisions ## Source: Wejchert, M. (2023). _Hidden Mountains_. HarperCollins. %% ## References, Quotes, Ideas ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[ ]] and !outgoing([[ ]]) sort file.mtime desc ```