Monday, August 16, 2010

Quiet Night Broken By Rain

Climb along the rock face of the mountain. The steepness of this face is a little greater than 45 degrees. There are white ropes to hold on for safety. The ledge is not much more or maybe less than a foot. When you shine your headlamp down the side of the mountain, you can't see the bottom. It's very steep. If you slip you will probably slip down to the bottom, its a very long slide and too steep to stop yourself. It's 3 am in the morning.


It starts raining. Water runs off down the surface of the mountainside. Some of this has collected into a waterfall. Supin is asking us to hurry before it gets worse. I lose my balance and almost fall if not for the rope. Gloves are dripping and fingers start to numb. We make it down. Relief.

I prayed for safety. We didn't make the summit. Maybe next time.

3 comments:

Daniel said...

Oh dear. That's too bad; better luck next time. At least you tried. Not many people can say that. =)

Sel said...

Good job anyways Jian:) You're still young,plenty of opportunities! Not to mention a whole year! Back to blogging again?

Jian Eu said...

Yes. But its all just very personal stuff. So that I don't forget.