s climbers, we have the privilege of being part of a global community of people who often get to access remote environments regularly, and because of that, climbers as a collective know a thing or two about being awestruck. A central feature that defines the experience of awe and the most applicable to us as climbers, is the concept of perceived vastness (Dacher, Keltner & Haidt, 2003), meaning the sheer magnitude of external stimuli in both physical and metaphysical terms. Put simply, when we’re faced with expansive
