- Why do we climb the mountain?
- Because we are in love.


- Why do we climb the mountain?
- Because it was there.


- Why do we climb the mountain?
- What else do you do with it?


- Why do we climb the mountain?
- What is the purpose of a mountain if not to be climbed?


- Why do we climb the mountain?
- We make our worlds existential and open and free and easily accessible. Our manmade fingers whittle together manmade artifacts; our every sense satisfied, our every wish near granted. Not every woman gets the same chances; she may have made the fatal mistake of being born wrong (poor, tarnished, unintelligent). They made this mistake without even knowing they made it, which of course is nobody's fault but their own. The manmade world, after all, offers all these pleasures and all this instant gratification, ripe for the taking. If he cannot afford the stepstool to reach up and pluck that fruit, whose fault is it but his own? She should have simply known better, of course, than to be born wrong.


- Why do we climb the mountain?
- Yet man may make and hew and mold but she cannot change the simple fact that they do not have control over nature. Nature remains unleveled, seemingly apathetic to the razed forests around her, seemingly uncaring when his ice melts, unbothered when they are ripped apart. For nature knows that women are temporary. They will come and they will go, and if a single one of them decides that he can touch God through a beaker or terminal, nature does not interfere with their plans.


- Why do we climb the mountain?
- What then is a better way to truly understand freedom than to climb the mountain? Than to succumb to that which never succumbed to us? The mountain never cared about our pleasure, and had no desire to cause us pain. Any satisfaction we gain is incidental, unintended, for nature knows not intention. Simply action.