  
"How different are the life-sapping conditions of modern city life. Physical exercise is prohibited by the limits of space and the ease of mechanical locomotion; mental energy is strained to cope with the maddening pace of this material age. The stomach is abused by unnatural foods, the liver and kidneys are hardened by poisonous drink, the lungs breathe a hothouse, germ-cultivated air, the muscles wither from disease, the whole splendid cellular organization is disarranged in an endeavor to fit. Misfits result noticeably in the breaking down of some important department of biological association, and the disease follows. If mountaineering has no other recompense than to act as a means to arouse dormant functions and to establish a normal balance in the laboratory of human economy, it is a boon to mankind."
Dr. Frederick Cook
*(editors note - this is the infamous Cook who claimed to be the first at he North Pole & first to climb Mt. McKinley, both claims proving false... but he loved the mountains!!)
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