"I climb for pleasure, for the wonderful views and the vigorous exertion, for the relaxation of a complete change for mind and body, and because of the inspiration to the spirit. To combine exploration with must, no doubt, so increase the interest as to well repay the augmented difficulties. All I would emphasize is that to climb anywhere repays the effort, even if it must be within reach of civilization and where others have gone before. To me there is ample reward in the uplift of the spirit; in the moral discipline, the keen interest, and the training to think, of a hard battle carefully planned, in the satisfaction of a love of adventure, and in the invigorating physical exercise."
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Dora Keen
(June 24, 1871 – January 31, 1963) was an American traveler, in Europe and North America, photographer, explorer, lecturer, writer, social worker, philanthropist, and women's rights activist. After a failed first attempt with Reuben Frederick McClellan and three other men (but without George William Handy) in 1911, she and George W. Handy became in 1912 the first two people to reach the top of . (In the , Mount Blackburn is called K’ats’ił Ta’aene.) Dora Keen and George W. Handy married in 1916
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