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21 " Have you ever taken a shit with a better view? "
― Kilian Jornet , Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World
22 " We can’t choose our genes or our build, and they’ll be with us for our whole lives. But they’re far from enough in determining who will be successful. "
23 " I think you can experience no greater sense of freedom than what you feel when you run on a ridge that seems to hang in the air. It's like running along the edge of the blade of a sword, taking care not to fall over one side as you accelerate with every step to leave the blade and the danger behind, though at the same time you don't want it to ever end. There is danger, but you can think only of flying, of giving your legs the freedom to go faster and faster, letting your body dance as it keeps its balance. It doesn't matter when or where—you could be descending the ridge on the Bosses of Mont Blanc, the ridges on the Olla de Núria or Carlit—that feeling of freedom never changes. "
― Kilian Jornet , Run or Die
24 " In fact, there were mountain competitions as far back as 1040, when King Malcolm Canmore organized a hill race in Scotland as "