Originally published in 1967 in Ascent magazine, and later the opening piece and title to Ken Wilson’s classic 1978 anthology, this essay by Lito Tejada-Flores remains a very worthwhile read over 50 years later.
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Lito Tajeda-Flores reexamined his earlier words, 23 years later, in a follow up essay, Beyond Climbing Games: Alpinism As Humanism. He added that playing the game always happens in a larger context and how it is played often has an effect on others. First published in Summit magazine in 1990, this piece of doesn’t get the same attention as The Games Climbers Play, but we think it an important companion to the first essay.
