This uncertainty has gone beyond ridiculous. Do I rest my foot or exercise it? Pack or wait? Keep reading about Nepal or start researching a geographically level destination? Even work is affected: To tackle Task XIVa2.7WL or skip to Item PN1426b47.935? I ask everyone: What would you do? Would you go or would you stay? At the end of my appointment with my ob-gyn today, he asked if I had any questions. “Yes, as a […]
Read moreMonth: October 2007
Good Times, Bad Times
This entry is dedicated to Jill, the only person silly enough to come here to read. Silly and adventurous: she is Mexico City at the moment, having just traveled through Copper Canyon, a place I’ve always wanted to see. Good Time #1: I had an actual Nice Day on Saturday: a lazy morning with Teej & R at the Rancho drinking tons of coffee, then kayaking at a lake above Nevada City. Since I haven’t […]
Read moreThe Conquest of Everest (Movie)
This incredible film is the original 1953 documentary of the Hillary/Norgay team’s ascent of Everest. I hadn’t realized the expedition had been documented in movie form, and found out only by accident when I discovered it hiding on Side B of the Into the Thin Air of Everest DVD. The beginning is inauspicious: a classic propaganda film [produced by Countryman Films] with waving Union Jacks and the newly coronated Queen Elizabeth buoyed down the avenue […]
Read moreInto the Thin Air of Everest (Movie)
Poor old Peak 15. It’s like a brilliant woman whom men see only for her perfect body. Into the Thin Air of Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom portrays Everest as remarkable mostly because of its recreational opportunities, which afford humans infinite potential to chalk up “firsts”: First attempt First successful summit First via the south First by English [Chinese] [American] team First without oxygen First without porters First solo First American woman to […]
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