This article starts with the simple sentence “Having been to the top is not everything” and follows the assumption that none of the 14 eight-thousanders could have been climbed without the development and use of specific techniques of space as optimizing forms of time management. Whereby—this is the second assumption—particularly refined manifestations would have to be found where, under the motto of the renunciation of technology, it is a matter of the processing of the self for the purpose of a constant increase in performance. This owes itself—according to conjecture three—less to rigorous self-mastery and self-control than to an “art of division” through concentrated simultaneity.