http://paulholding.com/2010/02/23/adventure-is-a-sign-of-incompetence/ Good Times in the Mountains Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://paulholding.com/2010/02/23/adventure-is-a-sign-of-incompetence/#comment-168349 Sat, 30 May 2020 10:10:47 +0000 http://paulholding.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-168349 Hi Paul, thanks for your comment. It looks like you are doing some very interesting things yourself. I just perused your website. I wish the best of luck with it!

]]> http://paulholding.com/2010/02/23/adventure-is-a-sign-of-incompetence/#comment-168339 Fri, 29 May 2020 17:12:47 +0000 http://paulholding.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-168339 Love this post. I believe it was Ibsen who first classified adventure as incompetence, as in “the incompetence of adventure”. Could not agree more. Of course the popular thought is for everyone to seek adventure. Your reference to The Last Place On Earth is great and the difference in how people feel about the two explorers is all wrapped up in the English love of an unlucky loser who gives it his/her all. The are loved for their pluck and incompetence or hubris. The journals of Scott made him an enduring legend, even though they were heavily edited by his wife who was having an affair while he was freezing to death near the South Pole. “Oh what tales we might have told…” is probably poetry written after the facts. Amundsen was born for doing the amazing trek. Scott was an Englishman, Edmund Hillary notwithstanding.

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