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III the climber is ready now prepares breath, gathering, releasing having given away certainty, what remains? A free ascent in a day of the Hallucinogen Wall, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, April 15, 2022 I we enter the canyon's draw at first light, our clinking gear on swaying hips echoes softly on close walls as feet fall into gravity's step on the rim above, turkeys unroost and call a high-throated waddling song. I respond a tongue-whipping high note, wait for their gaggle giggling a response as I laugh joy into the otherwise quiet. down ropes, we lower past the steepest drop and feet begin again, picking through poisonous ivy round the nose of the North Chasm View Wall rising 1,500 feet to sky, below the white hum of water pushing on elephant-sized boulders we contour the vined slope, the hum fills us and our minds unwind closing the gap between us and the climb. [Extracted from the article] |
