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Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 7, 2018 - 04:45pm PT

It's like fun only different.

I'm writing something, and I want to refer to this quote. I'm pretty sure it was Alex Lowe, but web searches don't find it. I really don't want to be wrong with the attribution.

Also if anyone knows more about the context of the sentence that would be very cool to know.

Thanks.

RURP_Belay

Big Wall climber

Bitter end of a bad anchor

Apr 7, 2018 - 05:38pm PT

It is a statement resultant of "Type 2" (or maybe 3) fun, I believe.

https://www.tetongravity.com/story/adventure/the-three-and-a-half-types-of-fun-explained

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Apr 7, 2018 - 05:39pm PT

"Hackett's team, I later learned, not only received no renumeration for their lifesaving labors, but--having failed to obtain funding in both 1986 and 1987--met most of the project's expenses out of their own pockets. I asked one of the doctors, Howard Donner, why they volunteered to spend their summers toiling in such a godforsaken place. 'Well,' he explained as he stood shivering in a bizzard, reeling from nausea and a blinding headache while attempting to repair a broken antenna, "it's sort of like having fun, only different.'"

"Club Denali," Eiger Dreams, p. 72
John Krackauer

could have been said sometime else, someplace else, by someone else, but this is the first time I ever read it... I was laughing hysterically through the reading of that collection of climbing stories.

cavemonkey

Ice climber

Apr 7, 2018 - 06:34pm PT

Carl Tobin always said “it doesn’t have to be fun to be good “

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Apr 7, 2018 - 07:08pm PT

It may not have been Barry Blanchard who said it first, but he was the first person I heard saying: "It don't have to be fun, to be fun."

cavemonkey

Ice climber

Apr 7, 2018 - 08:10pm PT

I know that Barry and carl did some time together.
I think alex’s Quote was something along the lines of “the best climber is the one having the most fun “