Aware of the Mountain: Mountaineering as Yoga (Paperback)

Aware of the Mountain traces the author’s climbing experience, with its difficulties and its inspiration, and indicates ways that mountaineering and yoga together can be used to better understand life. Yoga is shown to be a tool for increasing awareness of ego which is pivotal in changing personality. Otherwise, climbing can become an end in itself, unimportant to the development of relationships and personal philosophy. Mountain climbing, (as all of life), can be viewed as (more…)