For three hours I walked up the steep mountainside through thick fog, the last hour with no track to follow or way to get my bearings, instead following my instinct. Just as I thought IRead More
The mountain commands my attention out this open window. I see WH Murray up there, clinging to a buttress, balanced, rope dropping downwards from his waist; or crossing a glacier, intent on scaling the rockRead More
I climbed a path I knew well from Valcanale through forest and past an abandoned ski area to the tumbled stones of a broad moraine. For another hour I picked my way up the moraine,Read More
Kopaonik in June … thunderstorm wild. The thunderstorms glide in every day, amassing ever blacker as one waits in anticipation, the air growing thicker with heat and humidity, the insects furiously buzzing from flower toRead More
Being wide open emotionally, sensibly (of the senses), allowing all to penetrate to one’s soul, makes it difficult to live. . . . Dealing with the exigencies of daily living makes it difficult to beRead More
I opened my eyes. Often when you wake for the first time in a new place, it takes a few moments before the brain figures out where you are. Not this morning. The instant IRead More