Always circular no chance of expansion unless skin is cut then it flows away from the heart. In Climbling In climbing the most balanced position is that which at first feels most unnatural. You must learn to place your weight directly over your feet and not lean into the rock. Clinging is the fastest way to the ground. The only strength lies in exposure.
Nothing is known more deeply nor so bravely resisted.
Climbing a ridge thin as a blade of light words spoken when silence is easier. On the glacier's white flank cold sucks at all that flows. Because I cannot be still here life is missing a dimension, like the painting of a deaf man. Only your face is unclothed.