This eloquent title belongs to a poem in Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass. It begins: Darest thou now, O Soul, … More
Month: January 2019
Altibajos …. or the ups and downs of the trek – and its exigencies
We have to accept ups and downs, so nicely captured in the Spanish word altibajos. But it is difficult not … More
Take things as they come
Should we embrace a teleological view of the trek, that it only has meaning based on its purpose to complete … More
Zen and the art of trekking
Sometimes the contrast between the real and painful effort made during the trek and the imaginative mental projection of finally … More
Everest Region: to the Gokyo Lakes
Beginnings Exactly ten years ago, during the January school break in Nepal, when I was working in Kathmandu University High … More