Most of us are forgetting that from the beginning of our life we are approaching death. Life is absurd. But you can fill it with ideas. With enthusiasm. You can fill your life with joy.

Mountaineer Reinhold Messner, contemplating the meaning of Nimsdai Purja's ascent of Earth's 14 8,000 meter peaks in 7 months. From the film 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible (2121). Messner was the first to ascend all 14 8,000 meter peaks (and he did so without supplemental oxygen), a feat which took him 16 years.