AT HOME IN THE WILD

摘要

Mountains "are beautiful terrors," writes George Mac-Donald in his classic children's book The Princess and Curdle. They are "portions of the heart of the earth that have escaped from the dungeon down below.. . into the wind, and the cold, and the starshine." If valleys are for cities and settlers, mountains belong to weather and wildflowers, to glaciers and raptors. There is nothing tame about a mountain, no landscape more compelling. Each year, thousands of us strap on boots and packs and pant up the trail in search of the silence and sky that extend in all directions.