Oct 3, 2022
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I’m just down from the mountain, so as expected it was a long day.
You’ll have to wait until I get home to see any pics, but to be honest I didn’t take many. I get really focused on the climb.
I told myself it was ok not to go all the way to tip top, what with my feet/ankles having gotten in so much worse shape since I was last in the mountains. Heck, I didn’t have ankle braces then! Up was easier than I expected, despite the extreme steepness of parts, but down? Whew! I had forgotten the strain of down... Owww!
There were some worrying things. It looks like the people logging the neighboring property have wrecked our road to the lower place. I couldn’t even find it! The road we helped put in to all the relative’s land (relatives owned all of one side) including ours chunk along the ridge, has been mucked about by some relatives. Locked gates cutting off higher places (for example ours) and at one spot building a small house but paving the road right over to it and cutting off the upper road entirely (you know, up to us). Then at the peak, someone has driven some machinery over from the land on the other side of the mountain and used a chainsaw! I knew the people that owned the other side if the mountain had been starting to develop it, but this was up on our property. Oh, and the ruined house that my grandfather grew up in, the one that has sat there untoubled by humans for more than 60 years? (See photos I’ve posts before) Vandals have finally found it. Sigh
The mountain is gorgeous, but humans keep encroaching. It used to be no signs of people and just the sounds of nature. Now I find empty drink bottles at the top listen to cars in the distance...
Oh, and no place to watch the eclipse. Ah, well.
Still, good day.
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80 days to go
I had an early Christmas this year. Dan is going to be away and working over the festive season so, while he was here in the UK, we had a roast dinner with his family where we drank lots of wine and exchanged gifts. Dan’s mum even dressed up as an elf and had put all of her Christmas decorations up in honour of the occasion!
Dan, being the ever-supportive boyfriend that he is, bought me ‘Everest 1953’ - a book about the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. I’ve just finished the last chapter.
Honestly, I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone, not just those of us that have, or are due to, set foot on the mountain ourselves. Mick Conefrey, the author, writes incredibly engagingly and in a very easy to read style. My favourite thing about the book is that Conefrey has drawn upon the diaries and letters of the expedition team members, alongside records from various organisations that supported the climb, and these extracts are brilliant for emphasising the kinds of pressures that the team members were under; before, during and after the climb. It was also great to read about the history of attempts at the summit of Everest before 1953, and how it was widely considered to be “our [the British’s] mountain” due to previous reconnaissance and attempts on it.
Dan also got me ‘A Day to Die For’, which is about the 1996 disaster on Everest. I’m planning to read that one over Christmas so that I can revisit ‘Everest 1953’ while I am trekking next year. I’m sure that I will have time for lots of mountain-related literature and film over the next 80 days so if anyone has any recommendations they will be gratefully received!
Love.
R x