Sublime

Late in the month Mugs Stump crossed paths with Waterman on the upper Ruth Glacier. Stump, an alpinist of world renown who died on Denali in 1992, had just completed a difficult new route on a nearby peak, the Mooses Tooth.

Un hombre los siguió. Tampoco volvió a ser visto en Leadville. Era el extraño nuevo amigo de los tarahumaras, Shaggy, quien pronto sería conocido como Caballo Blanco, el vagabundo solitario de las Sierras Altas.

“The money we’ll find somehow,” he promised, and John experienced what he had not known before: men who loved beauty as an enhancement of life.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

foreshadowed,

We fastpacked into remote hot springs, went climbing in Joshua Tree,

His was the most interesting story, at least to Carter. At 5:55 p.m., with the fire just a minute away and rushing toward him at ever greater speed, he’d lit a second fire, up the hill he needed to climb. As his fire burned the grass in front of him, he walked into it and threw himself onto the hot ashes. He’d called for his men first to abandon th