Status Updates From Two Sherpas

“..of his pathological isolation, his libidinal incapacity, his affective idleness. He believes in this, in the reestablishment of a soothing routine, in the repetition of the scheduled shipwreck. This is the illusion: the spurious rearing of hope and fraud."

"They see us as mules, beings with bone structures suited to lugging great weights."

"These people..."

“Ninety-three years later: 18 April, 2014. Another avalanche. Fourteen thousand tons of ice; sixteen dead. All Sherpas.”

the writing is immaculate