{"text":"As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a 'continual agitation alive' in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intensely lived the closer one gets to its extinction: we never feel so alive as when we have nearly died.","author":"Robert Macfarlane","tags":["mountain","mountain-climbing","mountaineering","mountains","risk"],"id":143816,"author_id":"Robert+Macfarlane"}