What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Passion entre ciel et terre
Since I live on a coastal plain far, far away from any mountains I rarely get to see any in person, at least the tall ones. I'm reduced to gazing at their sublime heights from the mundane safety of my computer screen. One of my favorite sites to visit is skyandsummit.com, where I can follow the adventures of a guy in France about my age who climbs mountains with his buddies on the weekends. They go dizzying places like this all the time. Can you imagine spending the night in this place? Anyway, this guy (whatever his/their name is/are) recently posted this really cool video of his/their summit of Dent Blanche, a prominent peak in Switzerland. Does anyone know the artist of the song on the video?