"You're a little strange maybe, but I don't know if I'd go for 'frakking crazy'," he said. Ryan hung out with the other warmongers on a regular basis - he knew 'frakking crazy' and compared to them she was actually pretty normal. Aside from random impulses to go hiking in the middle of winter without some weird death wish.
There was always that sense of achievement at the peak - one that was probably a little inflated because of all the hard work it took getting there; it wasn't exactly Everest but it wasn't the easiest time of the year to go hiking, either.
"You can't really say 'it's a nice view' when you're in Manhattan and all there is is tall buildings and half a dozen different kinds of pollution."