ALWAYS STOPPING TO EXPLORE VAGUE MOUNTAIN WAVES OF ADVENTURE BY LETTING THE HORIZON BE WHAT IT IS (BISEXUAL ALPINISM)

0:34 - the weirdness of arriving (on an adventure)

1:24 - exploration as return, as love, as horizon

2:07 - why leave home? type 1 vs. type 2 (fun)

3:50 - 'I wish I was anywhere else'

4:24 - 'are climbers lying to each other?'

5:48 - desire to summit as desire to come down

6:30 - climbing as planetary or wandering movement

7:24 - the call for fun of climbing and beauty of vagueness

8:17 - vagueness and value 

9:40 - play as home

10:23 - exploration as inversion of outside and inside

11:23 - etymology of 'exploration' and the call

12:25 - climbing as surfing

13:30 - paradoxes of experience

14:14 - climbing as returning time and mnemonic anagogy

15:28 - opening lines of canto 28 of Dante's Purgatorio

18:30 - the swerve (clinamen), folding of time, resignation

20:18 - Leopardi's poetics of vagueness

21:19 - the onsight

22:43 - 'rather than being brittle, not vague, and kinda fragile'

23:30 - swerve, turbulence, spontaneity, composition

27:50 - crudeness of our analytical self-accounting

28:25 - paying attention to the whim

30:30 - 'we learn despite ourselves'

30:45 - learning as recollection, aphaeresis

32:24 - ascent as reversal of descent

33:00 - climbing as dropping out vs. mainstreamization

35:25 - climbing as reification of exploration, means becoming ends

37:24 - #neverstopexploring, discovering great outdoors of your inbox, mountains of debt

39:55 - boredom and hypocrisy  

42:20 - honesty, shame, learning to be a shitty climber

43:50 - blue collar climbing

45:16 - new Gunks guidebook, chasing history

52:00 - 'peak climbing'

55:50 - downclimbing or offwidthly wiggling out of climbing a la The Shining 

1:00:00 - climbing and military allure

1:02:00 - exploration as double passage known and unknown

1:03:00 - exploration becomes self-exploration

1:04:00 - varieties of self and what you find honest

1:05:00 - Heidegger on letting the horizon be what it is

1:15:00 - kids teach us how to play

Adjacent routes:

Serres, Michel. 2018. The birth of physics.

LEOPARDI, GIACOMO. 2019. ZIBALDONE: the notebooks of leopardi.

Brinkmann, Carolin. (2008). From infinite pleasure to "abyss of indeterminate thoughts". Leopardi's pleasure theory and indefinite poetic. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. 58. 419-444. 

Harding, Warren, and Beryl Knauth. 2016. Downward bound: a mad! guide to rock climbing.

Margret Grebowicz. 2021. Mountains and Desire.

Heidegger, Martin. 2000. Discourse on thinking: a translation of Gelassenheit. New York: Harper Perennial.

Coccia, Emanuele. 2019. Goods: advertising, urban space, and the moral law of the image.