On climbing

Saw this while in OBS for the first aid course.

You cannot stay on the summit forever,
You have to come down again.
So why bother in the first place?
Just this: what is above knows what is below;
But what is below does not know what is above.
one climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer.
But one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up.
Rene Dumal

Makes alot of sense and would like to dedicate this to the Women’s Everest Team. Congratulations for successfully completing the Cho Oyu climb.

Its all a climb isn’t it? One cannot stop.