Sunrise in the Fairy Tale Kingdom
"Dream, laugh, go lightly, solitary, free,
With eyes that look straight forwardfearless voice!" -Cyrano D.
"Truthfully, I am "homesick" for a land that is not mine. I am haunted by the steppes, the solitude, the everlasting snow and the great blue sky "up there" ! The difficult hours, the hunger, the cold, the wind slashing my face, leaving me with enormous, bloody, swollen lips. The camp sites in the snow, sleeping in the frozen mud, none of that counted, those miseries were soon gone and we remained perpetually submerged in a silence, with only the song of the wind in the solitude, almost bare even of plant life, the fabulous chaos of rock, vertiginous peaks and horizons of blinding light. A land that seems to belong to another world, a land of Titans or gods ? I remained under its spell.
I went to have a look up there, near the Himalayan glaciers, landscapes contemplated by few human eyes ; it may have been dangerous and, as in the ancient fables, the deities took their revenge. But why did they take revenge ? to punish my audacity at having disturbed their home or my abandonment after having conquered a place by their side ? I do not know, for the moment, all I know is my nostalgia."
(Special thanks to someone very dear to my heart, for introducing me to the woman who spoke those famous words above - Alexandra David Neel- she inspires and she too saw the wonders of the Himalayas as an adventure to be conquered) |
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