Tнε Path of Faith

Last Day. Final push to the summit as the sun started to wake.... Last image of her on day 2.5 beFore technology went dark STELLA POINT - 18,880ft As we climbed higher, and pushed further than one ever thought the human body could ever push. Running on fumes. Moving by sheer mental force, she started to rise. All I lived for was putting one excruciatingly frozen foot in front of the other. One horrific step at a time. Already prepared for the eventuality of frostBite - in Africa. Fascinatin g. The Kili shuffle, it was called. you did not need to be taught, the Kili shuffle will come naturally to you.  It was the only way to move. She started to rise... We could feel her heat. I use "her". What else should I say? She's a female canine with snarling fangs dropping goblets of saliva in the anticipation of scorching some impudent human flesh. She, is the Sun. Still, we pushed towards her. I lifted my eyes to see. I always want to see. Everything. ...

The most beautiful experience we can have, is the Mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the root of True Art and True Science. It is a know-ledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate. It is a perception of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most abstract primitive forms are accessible to our minds – it is this knowledge and emotion that constitute true religiousity. A genuine Faith must recognize that it is through a dark glass we see; though by Faith we do penetrate sufficiently to the heart of the mystery not to be overwhelmed by it. A genuine Faith resolves the mystery of Life by the mystery of GOD. It recognizes that no aspect of Life or Existence explains it-self; even after all known causes and consequences have been traced. All Existence is ancient; and ancient has no beginning. All known Existence points beyond it-self. To realize that it points beyond it-self to GOD is to assert that...