One might argue the opposite, that it'd be disorienting to come back to accomplishments when one has no recollection of the efforts that went into achieving them.

[He won't push. Niou can take all the space he wants, all the time he needs. Perhaps that remark is something entirely more simple: a brief reminder of, I know.]

Still, that's a concern for a time when the ground isn't covered in snow, I imagine.