This Poem is dedicated to the lives lost while climbing the most unforgiving Peaks in the world.
" **"Why did you want to climb Mount Everest? ** "
" Because it's there. "
George Leigh Mallory 1923
Eyes stinging,I'm facing up to the test,
realising that this could could be the death of me yet,
take a peek at the peak from under my hood,
life sapping winds leech heat from blood.
*Of a lesser one maybe,but me no never,
take the pace easy,got to box clever*
As the hurricane howls I know I can't sweat,
if you do you lose heat,that's the kiss of death,
push endurance to the max through the **** zone,
keep your mind right cause you're on your own,
*stay positive,already faced K2,
Savage Mountain behind me,time for take two*
taking on the monster,most unforgiving,
Goddess of the sky,sacrifices the living,
of the ones who tried 9% have died,
Sagarmatha- I say a silent prayer for their lives.
Don't want my name on the roll of the lost,
souls wandering the peak like a host of ghost's,
**save a thought for the Sherpa's,unflinching guides,
without whom the attempt is sheer suicide**
Is it Vanity?, Ego? that pushes us to climb,
the 8 thousand plus defy man and time
I can't answer-even though I know the ledge
all I know is life's sweeter when you're on the edge,
of the precipice the gap between life and death
preserve your oxygen-steal each breath,
Born risk taker- adrenaline drug of choice,
free-dived blue hole,flew Carl's walls heights,
but this is the big one,can't take fright-
or I'll be frozen like a statue,by the dawn's cold light,
point of no return strength got to summon it,
whole life leads to the push for the summit."