Nate Valente here, and welcome to N8-Ascents. a little bit about myself: i am an avid backpacker, skier and skydiver who loves the outdoors. this page is a place where i will post art graphics, videos, answer any travelling questions you guys have and all types of everything that pertain to said interests. so if you like extreme sports, nature, travelling and art of all types that makes you think or force you to take a step back and observe your own life, this is the page to look to. have fun and send it big! -blue skies
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time — jack london
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
— Steve Jobs (2005 Stanford Commencement speech)my search continues but i wont ever stop searching. fight the feeling that binds you to normality by fear of the unknown
what if money was no object? what do YOU desire?
a 4 min preview of the direction of the human race… “do we have the courage to face the realities of our time? and allow ourselves to feel deeply enough that it transforms us and our future?” …. sadly the answer is no.
thinking this will help me find direction in my life… better start logging in more jumps at my DZ haha
sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
one of the most powerful videos for me personally. in the end our memories are all we’ll ever have. live and love life and those in it to the fullest.
My greatest fear.
Live-Unbound guys. every day can be a great day!!
