>>1367702There's this beautiful and hidden cycle in the outdoor world of leaders who pass down their skills onto the next generation of people. Sometimes they die, but I believe they can live on through the people they teach. When I was young and in a very bad place, I was on the brink of death, but someone taught me how to build a fire, to navigate a forest, to purify water and overcome a mountain. He died a few years ago, killed instantly by a freak snowstorm while summiting at 14,000 foot peak somewhere in the Rockies.
When I'm out there I'm scared anon. I'm scared that I will die, that my students will die, that I'll fuck up and some family member far away will curse my name because I got their loved one killed with a bad decision, but I try and think about all that he taught me, and that I have the support and courage of thousands of people behind me, stretching back to the beginning of time when all men lived this way. We don't have to know their names or what they looked like, because the great outdoorsmen of the past live on in who we pay it forward to.
Take kids outside, teach them to live and breathe in the deadliest and most beautiful places. You're right OP, it really is dumb, but it's all we've got in the end. Plant a seed and give someone their world back.
>>1368299music for these types of feels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTIHh-cXj0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvPMbJZfLw 