But their father's reply was "Three lifetimes wouldn't be enough." He says that with so many traces of the past to be found, the search is too much for one person, and so when he walks the old trails he usually takes along aboriginals, students, or some of the few friends who share his concept of "academic mountaineering."
爸爸的答案卻是「三輩子也爬不完」，他說，多少前人走過的足跡，不能只靠一個人，因此他的古道之行，常常帶著原住民、學生，和少數與他有著「登山學術化」理念的好友同行。