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Why Mt. Rainier?
Why climb Mt. Rainier? There are other more accessible, and lower height peaks that could be attempted? So why a mountain that on average has 2 deaths per year, one of the largest amounts of snowfalls, and many glaciers? I first got the idea from reading “No Shortcuts to the Top”, by Ed Viesturs. A…
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Poem – Spirit
Staring at light green painted walls adorned with maps of Alaska nostalgia creeps within my fingertips and like exposed light free of dust, pure it permeates any wall I have erected and hits my heart. I see the places I have not seen. I taste the earth I have not touched. I breath the air…