2021_365271 - Legend
#5020 - 2021 Day 271: My current reading is the biography of a Scottish mountaineering legend Robin Smith, whose life was cut tragically short in 1962 at the age of just 23 in a fatal fall in the Pamirs. Who knows how great he might have become.
I have been fascinated by Smith for many years since first reading articles written by him, collated in the compendium of essays "The Games Climbers Play". He was not only one of the greatest climbing talents, he was also a philosopher, an extraordinary writer, and a character of some repute. This picture on the cover has come to be definitive.
Imagine then, when visiting the house of a very dear friend, my intrigue to find a framed picture - this one - on her studio desk. "You have a picture of Robin Smith on your desk," I enquired. Nobody I have ever met outside of climbing circles has heard of Robin Smith. "Yes," my friend replied. "He was my cousin ..."
Connections are immensely powerful.
2021_365271 - Legend
#5020 - 2021 Day 271: My current reading is the biography of a Scottish mountaineering legend Robin Smith, whose life was cut tragically short in 1962 at the age of just 23 in a fatal fall in the Pamirs. Who knows how great he might have become.
I have been fascinated by Smith for many years since first reading articles written by him, collated in the compendium of essays "The Games Climbers Play". He was not only one of the greatest climbing talents, he was also a philosopher, an extraordinary writer, and a character of some repute. This picture on the cover has come to be definitive.
Imagine then, when visiting the house of a very dear friend, my intrigue to find a framed picture - this one - on her studio desk. "You have a picture of Robin Smith on your desk," I enquired. Nobody I have ever met outside of climbing circles has heard of Robin Smith. "Yes," my friend replied. "He was my cousin ..."
Connections are immensely powerful.