Mountains are here to tell us how fragile we are, and how great it is to deny our frivolity, by reaching for their shimmering peaks, from the highest, most intense spiritual exertions. Climbing mountains, in its purest unadulterated form, is when we act like Gods, doing something just because we decided to do it. It’s the closest thing to free will bending the cosmos to its desire.
Under scintillating stars, diamonds of fate in alpine nights, denying the call of gravity, foiling the assault of storms, calculating for the best when death lurks, mastering our minds to make them one with our command of nature… In one ascent recreating all what life is about, up and down. While directing the show…
Deciding life and death, what could be more divine?
What could be more human? Captains, not just of our souls, but of gravity and fate itself!.. And those of our companion(s)…
Live fully by living light, dance with destiny, as if your life depended upon it, because it does… Let that thinking flower blossom, with extraordinary art, and if it dies from it, so much greater the glory! And the victory of the fundamental human principle that human values trump everything else, including nature itself. Those values in turn derive from better thinking. “Thinking better” means making neural networks in one’s mind which fit reality better in their outcomes.
Life below, with its nourishing fields, icy death and its treacherous abysses, above.
Among the galaxy’s most beautiful sights, a balance of life and death…
Patrice Ayme
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