I know it is tiring cutting your losses again and again as an American,

[applegrove]

but pretend you are John Krakauer and near the summit of Mt. Everest, and fight on another day to convince another non voter to vote.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1816662-into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mt-everest-disaster

"When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath.… I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again."

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

[BaronChocula]

1. That book was chilling

No pun intended.
And then the climbers in the book that died in accidents after the book was published. But they died doing what they loved.

[applegrove]

2. I never followed up on the people in the book. Did not

know others had died. I loved that book. Harrowing for sure. I finally got why mountain men/women are in it for. All laser focused on one goal. I have hikers in my family, a sister and two brothers, but no climbers. I was going through scary times in my own life so Into Thin Air was a diversion I think.

[BaronChocula]

3. I had a friend who decided to get into climbing

Wanted to climb Everest eventually. I remember her talking about a friend dying on a climb and she getting into some serious jeopardy on her way up Whitney. I know she reassessed after that, but don't know if she ever continued her quest.

[applegrove]

4. The day I arrived at the Tea House in Lake Louise, in June,

they were flying out a body by helicopter they found near Mt. Victoria. I didn't forget that.

[BaronChocula]

5. That would definitely stay with me for a long time n/t