•You have ever frozen your lips to an ice screw while blowing an ice plug at your partner.
•You have ever used an ice axe to chop weeds in the garden.
•A Mexican bus driver has ever had to open his window because of the way you smelled.
•You have more summit pictures than wedding pictures.
•You've ever had icicles hanging from any part of your face.
•You can pronounce Popocatepetl correctly more than once in a row.
•You've ever fallen so far that you've run out of adrenaline before you ran out of rope.
•You say "Namaste" instead of "Hello".
•You like the smell of burning yak dung.
•Your suncream is always in a solid state when you need it the most.
•What you call cold is not on the thermometer scale.
•When you hear the words 'nose', 'captain' or 'aid', your hands start hurting and swelling.
•'Cos 90°' means it was too steep to go and has nothing to do with 1.
•You arrive at a climbing gym with stoppers and friends still in your bag.
•You see a girl in the street and you think: "Hmmm, she's a TD+/5.11...".
•Your definition of a candlelight dinner is: "Thaw the ice with the candle and put it in the bag of freeze-dry".
•You hear the name "Hillary" and think of Everest instead of Mrs. Clinton and White House scandals.
•And finally, you understood all the previous lines. If you even laughed, you should get back to work...
You don't walk down stairs, you rappel
You've used an ice axe to clean off the front steps in winter.(Marty Lifgren)
Author: John N. Meyer,Downer
