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August 09, 2008
The Narrow Path — by Kay Ryan
No rime-grizzled mountain climber,
puzzled by where to put his fingers next,
knows the least thing about
how narrow work gets
that depends only on pleasure.
When it gets late or he gets depressed,
he can hang in a nylon sack,
his whole weight waiting
for the light to come back.
But for people who ascend
only by pleasure
there are no holding straps.
They must keep to the
hairline crack all the time
or fall all the way back.
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Great post...if only because I spent the last two days out in the wilderness trying to figure out where to put my fingers and failing.
Then again, that wall looks a lot more impressive than what I was doing (we were only 40 feet up working on technique outside of the gym trying to get a little more skill before investing the equipment that would be required for this sort of stuff!)
Posted by: clifyt | Aug 10, 2008 10:42:09 PM
Are these the moutains around UVA? and /or where is Heidi?
Posted by: Pitch Kindling | Aug 9, 2008 2:43:41 PM
