9,8m/s²

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Is the acceleration of the force that attracts us to the ground and makes it so hard to go up (further away from the center of the earth).

When I was a kid, my grandmother used to ask me: “What do you have to do at the top of that tree? You’re going to kill yourself!! At that point it was only funny for me, but the question stayed floating inside of me…

Years ago, climbing, I had a fall that almost finished with my life, and I remembered her question…

Not long ago, I was climbing in Patagonia, and I just when I was getting to the top of one peak, I remembered my grandmother, her question and I laughed once again, just like when I was a child.

For me, it is just a matter of attraction, an energy issue…

The energy of the earth pulls us to the ground and we pull the earth against ourselves (at least a little bit). Since we were babies, beauty has attracted us, colors have attracted us, the movement has attracted us, music has attracted us… We go around the world feeling lots of different sensations, energy.

We are attracted by climbing. Something makes us try, and do it again, something grows inside of us, one part of us is climbing. When we climb, “we are climbing”.

The sky attracts us, the view from high places, “going up”. In taoism, there are two basic concepts, heaven and earth. The fact that someone likes climbing corresponds with a heaven tendency. This tendency makes us more sensitive to go up, to climb, and that makes us care less about gravity.

 

Willing to go up > 9,8m/s²

 

Is a salmon going against nature by going up a river?