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Even in his book Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest Evola discussed mountaineering as a possible approach or support on the way of initiatic ascesis in which heroic action is combined with specialized knowledge and training culminating in an initiation — the climbing of the mountain.

In this way, and not as a sport or a recreation, mountaineering can be a " spiritual quest ," as the subtitle of the book suggests.