WATER
I was in desperate need of water, my
tongue stuck to my throat, there was no sweat left. Caught
in a storm we were out ten days longer than planned. We
still had a pitch to go the top and no water. Looking down
3000 feet all I could think about was water, how essential
it was to life, how life evolved and how it had helped shape
the rock I was climbing.
First water
had eroded the valley, the river of ice had squared if off
flattening the rock, Finally melting and dammed by its own
morraine, it formed a lake. 10,00 years ago I could have
made a half mile swan dive to my salvation.
As the cool
water we found on top loosens my throat I think of the basic
natural miracle and awesome power that is water.
