(August 3, 2010) Somewhere on Alderson Mountain, Waterton Lakes Park, Canada. We started on the Carthew-Alderson Trial and went up the mountain but we ended up getting lost due to extremely poor visibility and headed back down again.
Mountains. Reclusive, exclusive and elusive. Their rawness and powerful scale have invoked stories and ritual of deities, legendary figures and spirits. For the modern man, mountains are often unconquered territory: the pinnacle achievement of having explored everything else without any (or very little) external aid. Forest, rivers, hills, fields, deserts; these are landscapes that are relatively easier to explore compared to the untamed wilderness of the mountain. Those of us who have traveled extensively, of course, know that this is not entirely true. But the grand vista or the obscured mystery of mountains has been romanticized for hundreds of years in the West, and thousands of years in China. Read More »
