(All of my mountaineering photography is in the form of slides; since I
haven't yet sprung for a slide scanner, the present availability of jpeg
files is rather limited. I hope to fill these in as time passes, as some
of these slides are achingly beautiful. Drop a note to
dfoty@sover.net with comments and suggestions.)
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again.... so why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know."
Rene Daumel, Mount Analogue
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