Journey of a Psalmist

Perhaps Ed Veisters is the real most interesting man in the world. Climbed Mount Everest five times, without supplemental oxygen. Also made an appearance in the movie Vertical Limit and the IMAX film Everest and wrote a book about K2. I find inspiration here for symbolic mountains of my own, but here's what Ed has to say about the real deal. When first he tried Everest he had to turn back, because of weather. Here he describes his first successful climb to the summit: It was twenty degrees below zero. The unforgiving Tibetan wind whipped around me, covering the footprints of my passage - a constant reminder of the challenges that lay ahead amid the rock and snow. I scanned ahead, following the outline that defined the massive shard of glistening crystal. Everest. It stood taunting me once again, spectacular crown sharply defined in the ethereal sky. ... (snip) Now, after years of preparation, I was back at base camp and ready: well trained, prepared, focused. I'd visua...

My blog, my blog, whatever happened to my blog? Well, I guess I got busy with life, and when I have so much on my place I can't always do everything. And I just don't feel the need these days to ramble on so much to the world about myself and my little issues. But you know, I do want to keep up writing, though I wish I was more prolific, and that I had more exciting stories to tell. Like the Don Equis beer guy, the most interesting man in the world. But hey my mom never had a tattoo that said "Son" and my blood doesn't smell like cologne. I'm not Hemingway safariing in Africa or Humphrey Bogart boating the Ulanga river in a movie, or Neil Peart the drummer and lyricist for the legendary band Rush who chronicled adventures bicyling through Camaroon. Or J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis hanging out at Oxford and creating entire imaginary worlds from their genius minds and stories blessing the lives of people around the world, from which they are still making mo...