In the film 180° South, Yvon Chouinard says something...

In the film 180° South, Yvon Chouinard says something about how the goal of planning a journey(and spending a lot of time in it afterward) is to effect a sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process, say by taking shortcuts, or by paying your way through(like some moneyed ppl do climbing Everest), you're an asshole when you start out, and you're an asshole when you get back.

The process matters more than the end goal, and skipping that seems insane to me.

Like 5 May 2023 at 22:28 | Open on merveilles.town

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R E K

Makes me think of people sailing south to Mexico, then having their boat shipped back up the coast later by container ship. Or of rich yacht owners who have crew sail their boat to exotic locations and flying in to spend time aboard, while doing no maintenance, no planning, no nothing.

5 May 2023 at 22:30 | Open on merveilles.town

@rek my father in law had a job like that once - worked as a carpenter on a boat with a crew taking it from Seattle to the Caribbean. I think the crew like fell apart around Baja and they all quit and left the boat.

6 May 2023 at 2:21 | Open on xoxo.zone

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@rek Same philosophy been worded in the movie The Alpinist which I saw last night. It's the process that's life changing. Not the achievement really.

8 May 2023 at 8:50 | Open on merveilles.town