“I study her visage, the fluted snow fields and couloirs of ice scoured by avalanches. Horizontal bands of rock curve downward, as if bearing the weight of the sky. Her summit is like a fulcrum on which the heavens lean, balancing the setting sun and rising moon.”
― Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
― Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
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