We often hear about adventurers, mountain climbers and other fierce people taming the mountain, but frankly, that turn of language sounds rather pretentious and my views it’s always the other way around.
It’s the mountain that brings us down to reality.
This is true at least when we ski. When the mountain challenges us, as it does in many occasions, it waits until we adjust our attitude and strategies towards reaching a meeker self, and when we have slowed down a bit, showed more humility, it lets us in, still under its own total control, its constant unpredictability and harsh surprises.
We never conquer the mountain, we’re always at its mercy, even when we think or believe otherwise. The mountain knows how to keep us modest by taming us, over and over…
Saturday, March 7, 2020
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