The book starts with Yvon’s history. The story begins when he is a young kid. He was interest in nature and environment since he was young. Though high school and college, he enjoyed the life climbing and interacting with the environment. Climbing was everything to him. He had a thought of society is just a distraction in life. After getting drafted to the army and sent to Vietnam, he learn to build tools and gear for climbing. He started a business selling and making climbing kits. However, he was not interested in the business at all. The only reason he started the business was so he could make some money to climb. He been to many mountains across nation. His climbing started to bring interest to other climber. A fourteen page essay on clean climbing by Sierra climber Doug Robinson wrote a powerful paragraph “there is a word for it, and the word is clean. climbing with only nuts and runners for protection is clean climbing. Climber come and leave without changes in rock and mountains. I think it is important to enjoy and take care of the environment.
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what was the thesis?
Hey hey wad up Shane, excellent work on the essay.