An Alternative Point of View


The Blond Witch?
(iPhone 3G)
11.08.27


Scary Mate
(Pentax MZ50)
?

 

So I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill
And I'll lie where the bracken is deep
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
Where the grey rocks lie ragged and steep
I've seen the white hare in the gully's
And the curlew fly high overhead
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead
(from the Manchester Rambler)

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WOT!
Dovestones
10 August 2010


I am "The Trespasser"
 **************
(Panasonic LX2)
21.09.09


I didn't know!
 Stool End Farm - Langdale Valley
(Panasonic LX2)
08.08.09


It can't be. - Llandegla
 (Pentax K200D)
15.07.09


WTF is this muck?
(an "I don't believe it" moment)
 Tatton Park
 (Panasonic FX30 - Audrey Faulkner Collection)
29.03.09


Beware indeed - Warburton
 (Pentax K200D)
20.03.09


"Match Stalk Man Lives"
The Lowry - Panasonic LX2
28 September 2008


Only 6 left
Pentax *ist DS
10 Feb 2008 Lymm Church Yard


If only t'were I
Panasonic LX2
 Tate Gallery - Albert Dock
20 Jan 2008


Inflation is getting way out of hand
Canon A400
2 Dec 2007 Llandegla - Lancs. Mountaineering Club MTB Meet


These Places really do exist
South Shields - 4 October 2007 - Panasonic LX2
 


The Heart of the matter
 Hells Glen - nr Loch Goil - 19 August 2007 - Pentax *ist DS


Its just wrong, isn't it!

            
Its true!!! - Near Driffield on the A614 28 October 04                                                                                                  Near Tarn Hows - Coniston 16 October 04 - Canon A85

A trick of the light?
Surely not
Perhaps some visual memory in the corner
of my shattered sight

A glint of snow on a mountain top
The flash of a peregrines wing
A site to make any heart quicken, then stop.
Just a memory, not the real thing.

Was it so long ago we climbed and walked
Roughly shod and able bodied
All day and all night we talked, 
And time has the final word, so sordid.

So,  Solitary and yet satisfied, that's fair
No pardons here on this final breath
Will my memory carry me through the icy air
For I too, have a rendezvous with death.

Ben Oss
Ben Oss from Benn Dubhcraig

For Religious Climbers- Some Biblical text
" I shall lift up mine eyes unto the hills O lord, whence forth shall come my salvation"
(Carved into a wooden beam in the little Church at Wasdale.)

So here's to my friend
so properly buried

Its a pity the Dead Man
wasn't properly buried!

 Here lies the body of Morris Potts
He remembered his rope
but forgot his knotts

An Alternative Point of View

 

J.B's Song

We will climb today said my friend
Not I, said I, Not today.
We can walk the ridge today, she said
Not I, said I, Not Today
Lets scramble on Tryfan, they cried.
Not I,  said I, Not on this cold icy day

Where is my Friend now, and where is she today?
Are they scrambling without me?
Too bloody right,  they never ask me out to play

DJF

The Wound

I climbed to the crest
And, fog festooned,
The sun lay west
Like a crimson wound

Like that wound of mine
of which, none new,
For I 'd given no sign
That it pierced me through.

Thomas Hardy
A Cautionary Tale

The sun was hot
So he drank his fill
From the cool flowing waters
of Sour Milk Ghyll
But Little he new
That just out of view
Splitting the rushing stream in two
Were the rotting remains of an Herdwick Ewe.



A Climbers Prayer " From death in the Valley's, O Lord Deliver us.