
Stujack Pass
October 12, 1997 |
Trips:
Why?
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come
down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:
What is above knows what is below, but what is below does
not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One
descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is
an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the
memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer
see, one can at least still know. Rene Daumal
Mt. Baring April 26, 1998  New!
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