The Climber
The spiritual hero|ine #7
A couple of years ago my beautiful wife and I became obsessed with solo free climbing.
Not in the sense that we went up and down cliff faces without ropes risking our lives. More in the Netflix kind of a way. We watched every documentary we could find about these amazing people.
One of the things I remember most is something that they all seemed to have in common. It had to do with a specific far away look that they had. You somehow knew that they had stared into the face of death. Alone.
And this experience seemed, at least to me, to give them a liberated perspective on life.
