Miscellaneous: A Road I Remember

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"As you sit on the hillside,

or lie prone under the trees of the forest,

or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream..."

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Stephen Graham

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Climbing, The Romanian Olympus - Part I

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"The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination - in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a parodoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with you body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk."

               

A. Alvarez