Thank you for this story.
I have lived in the Yukon for twenty years and hiked across the tundra, into the alpine valleys, through endless bush or paddled along hundreds of miles of untamed rivers. I encountered wildlife, small and big, up close und at distance. I fought wildfires in remote places.
I never got the sense of adventure… mainly, because I understand myself as part of this wilderness. I was accompanied by people aged 10 to 80 – age or physical condition were never a limiting factor, except when influenced by angst that was carried along by its bearer.
Now I live in a tiny mountain village at 5000 ft elevation in Switzerland, with alpine peaks a two hour hike from the doorstep, the potential for avalanches for six months a year. People have lived and farmed here for 700 years. And they were able to do it successfully because they understood themselves as part of their physical surroundings and because they knew that nobody on this planet can exist on her/his own.
It is, indeed, an adventure to get to this spiritual calm!
Seit mehreren Jahren wollte ich die Schönheit der Seerosen am “Lotus Teich” bei der Allmeinihütte in Tenna fotografieren. Doch abends sind die Blüten geschlossen, tagsüber das Licht und die Reflektion vom Wasser zu grell oder zu dunkel, und dann habe ich auch selten die richtige Kameramit, um Nahaufnahmen zu machen.
