You
are absolutely right. Normally I do not "conquer" a mountain. The concept of
collecting them, one by one, following a list, is bad enough in itself. It
serves, however, to provide an aim in life, how useless it may be, get me off
the ground, away from home, into the unknown. The top of Rockall is the only one
to be conquered - I do not have another word for what I am doing there. The
very low highpoints on my list present themselves mostly as puzzles: Where is
it, the highest in Denmark? So with those, it is visiting, rather, and listening
to the larks in the sky.
The
really high ones speak another language to me: They admit me coming, scratching
a bit on their surface, and if I am lucky they won't hit back. This combined
with political trouble in the areas I plan to visit makes the entire thing an
uncalculable adventure. There will be nobody to rescue me in the
Caucasus.
Tripoints? Unfortunately none really along my way. All I am going to
touch are invisible boundaries along stormy mountain crests between the named
republics and Georgia, Azerbaidjan or Russia, respectively. If three crests
of whatever kind meet in the summit - these will be my ultimate
tripoints.
Cheerio, Wolfgang
thanxx very much indeed maestro
both for
voting with your feet
& for these good wishes to
ours
having enjoyed some of both the hi & the tri
pointing
programs myself
i think probably the only significant
differences
between
attempting to conquer something
&
trying
to visit somewhere
which often
tho not necessarily
distinguish the
hi from the multi
is that we tripointing trypointers tend toward
an
integration with rather than necessarily a
vanquishment of our try
point
& unlike attempting per se
our trying
when we do try a
point
explicitly includes
tasting
sampling
testing
as well
as smoothing & fitting & aligning accurately
with it
&
perhaps most of all
determining its strength & effect & worth
&
desirability
of course we too attempt & endeavor as we
try
but as you see
our tries are always an outrageous hilarious &
indeed
multidimensional success from the git go
whether we happen to
eventually bump into our
objective or not
but in any & every
case
& in all your summary summitry & beyond
be it summery or
not
vis tecum
& bring us a fresh tripoint if you would &
can
--- Wolfgang Schaub
<Wolfgang.Schaub@...>
wrote:
> In my highpointing program I have "done" this year,
> in
chronological
> sequence, the highest points of "Freistaat
>
Flaschenhals", Madeira, the
> Sorbic country, West Berlin and the "Freie
Republik
> Schwarzenberg", all
> kind-of low level.
>
> Tomorrow I am heading for Svalbard's Newtontoppen,
> followed
by a conquest
> attempt of Rockall (19.2 m). The most demanding
>
section on my agenda will be
> in July/August: Adygea with Chugush,
Ingushetia with
> Mt'a Shani, Chechnya
> with Tebulos Mt'a and
Dagestan with Bazardjuzi.
>
> This will be followed by an
off-program trip to
> Northern Thailand and
> Southern China in
September, so you may expect me
> back some time in October
> (for
those of you who may otherwise believe I was
> falling
asleep...)
>
> In the meantime: Happy tripointing to all of
you,
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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