Nelson
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A Little About Me
I enjoy non-technical, off-the-beaten-path scrambles and rambles. No goals or lists, just enjoy being in the backcountry. Will return to the same place again and again, it's always new. Have been known to stop for a minute to examine a bird or flower. I don't move real fast.
Quote from Charles Lind, An Afterclap of Fate
At moments like this you can really savour the wry humour of Donald Robertson's remark 'climbers are always trying in self-defence to maintain the fiction that they are enjoying themselves'.
Mummery was surely right in his observation that 'the essence of the sport, lies not in ascending a peak, but in struggling with and overcoming difficulties...'
People are always asking me to explain or justify the sport of climbing ... but climbing, just like life itself, has no narrow rational purpose ... all its sense lies in the doing. ... A reawakening to what it means to be alive, the unaccountable miraculousness of being ... and that feeling of sheer delight in it.
Quote from Jonathan Neale, Tigers of the Snow
I ask Khansa Sherpa, in English, why foreigners climb mountains. He laughs and says to his wife, Lhakpa, in Sherpa, "You know what he just asked me? Why do foreigners climb mountains?" Lhakpa laughs, too.
Then Khansa tells me he has been reflecting on this matter since 1953. He's finally concluded that foreigners climb mountains because they like to. Unlikely as that seems, no other explanation makes sense.
Quote from The Beatles
Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles
Andy following me (a rare event) on Dragon's Tail Couloir. May, 2006. Photo by smudge.
Quote from Charles Lind, An Afterclap of Fate
At moments like this you can really savour the wry humour of Donald Robertson's remark 'climbers are always trying in self-defence to maintain the fiction that they are enjoying themselves'.
Mummery was surely right in his observation that 'the essence of the sport, lies not in ascending a peak, but in struggling with and overcoming difficulties...'
People are always asking me to explain or justify the sport of climbing ... but climbing, just like life itself, has no narrow rational purpose ... all its sense lies in the doing. ... A reawakening to what it means to be alive, the unaccountable miraculousness of being ... and that feeling of sheer delight in it.
Quote from Jonathan Neale, Tigers of the Snow
I ask Khansa Sherpa, in English, why foreigners climb mountains. He laughs and says to his wife, Lhakpa, in Sherpa, "You know what he just asked me? Why do foreigners climb mountains?" Lhakpa laughs, too.
Then Khansa tells me he has been reflecting on this matter since 1953. He's finally concluded that foreigners climb mountains because they like to. Unlikely as that seems, no other explanation makes sense.
Quote from The Beatles
Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles
Andy following me (a rare event) on Dragon's Tail Couloir. May, 2006. Photo by smudge.
My Images
My Areas & Ranges (2)
- Rocky Mountain National Park Front Range
- The Hongu Valley
My Mountains & Rocks (10)
- Big Agnes Mountain Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks
- Flattop Mountain Rocky Mountain National Park
- Kangchenjunga 8000m Peaks
- Kinabalu
- Little Matterhorn Rocky Mountain National Park
- Mera Peak The Hongu Valley
- Mount Meeker Rocky Mountain National Park
- Peak 5950 Kangchenjunga
- Saint Vrain Mountain Indian Peaks (CO)
- The Sharkstooth Rocky Mountain National Park
My Routes (16)
- Andrews Glacier Taylor Peak
- Apache Couloir Apache Peak
- Dragon's Tail Couloir Flattop Mountain
- North Face Flattop Mountain
- North Face Snowfields Powell Peak
- North Face via Navajo Snowfield Navajo Peak
- Northeast Face Navajo Peak
- Northern Slopes Peak 5950
- Northwest Gully Flattop Mountain
- Snow Lion Mount Jasper
- Southeast Ridge Big Agnes Mountain
- Southwest Couloir Peak C
- Southwest Face Little Matterhorn
- The "Krishna Cutoff" Hallett Peak
- The "Weenie Route" Greyrock Mountain
- Tyndall Glacier Hallett Peak
My Trip Reports (4)
- Drifting Back Drift Peak
- Mama Tembo Climbs Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro
- Struck By Lightning! South Rawah Peak
- Whiteout on Storm Peak
My Albums (7)
- Amphu Labsa The Hongu Valley
- Down The Paria Paria Canyon/Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
- Less Than Eleven Feet Wind River Range
- Less Than Eleven Feet II Wind River Range
- Lost Creek Wilderness, June 2013
- Mountain People
- Wind River Range, Take 3 Wind River Range
My Trailheads (9)
- Bear Lake Hallett Peak
- Chapin Pass Ypsilon Mountain
- Colorado River Lulu Mountain
- Fern Lake Stones Peak
- Green Mountain Nakai Peak
- Lawn Lake Rowe Peak
- Meeker Park Horsetooth Peak
- Milner Pass Mount Ida
- Twin Sisters Twin Sisters Peaks
Climber's Logs I've Signed (48)
Areas & Ranges (1)
Mountains & Rocks (47)
- Mount Ida Rocky Mountain National Park
- Five Sisters of Kintail Scots Team Sandbox
- Mount Alice Rocky Mountain National Park
- Fremont Peak Wind River Range
- Kilimanjaro Seven Summits
- Drift Peak Tenmile Range
- Half Mountain Rocky Mountain National Park
- Merapi Volcanoes of Indonesia
- Mount Bierstadt Colorado 14ers
- Powell Peak Rocky Mountain National Park
- Chiefs Head Peak Rocky Mountain National Park
- Peak C Gore Range
- Storm Peak Rocky Mountain National Park
- Iron Mountain Never Summer Range
- Eagles Nest Gore Range
- Mount Tamalpais California County Highpoints
- Volcán Poás/Volcán Barva Costa Rica Volcanoes
- Mount Lyell California County Highpoints
- Simmons Peak Yosemite National Park
- Huayna Picchu
- Mount Elbert Colorado 14ers
- Grays Peak Colorado 14ers
- James Peak & St. Mary's Glacier Indian Peaks (CO)
- Cadillac Mountain Northeast Alpine Peaks
- Quandary Peak Colorado 14ers
- Hallett Peak Rocky Mountain National Park
- Mount Columbia Colorado 14ers
- Bukit Timah
- Paiute Peak Indian Peaks (CO)
- Mount Audubon Indian Peaks (CO)
- Capitol Peak Colorado 14ers
- Mount Neva Indian Peaks (CO)
- McHenrys Peak Rocky Mountain National Park
- Pagoda Mountain Rocky Mountain National Park
- Mount Lady Washington Rocky Mountain National Park
- Greyrock Mountain Front Range
- Horsetooth Mountain Front Range
- Mount Jasper Indian Peaks (CO)
- Mount Toll Indian Peaks (CO)
- Mera Peak The Hongu Valley
- Mount Meeker Rocky Mountain National Park
- Navajo Peak Indian Peaks (CO)
- South & North Arapaho Peak Indian Peaks (CO)
- Torreys Peak Colorado 14ers
- Mount Shasta California County Highpoints
- Longs Peak Colorado 14ers
- Kinabalu
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