National Post Series, Part Two
December 10, 2009
Paul Quarrington: On Mountains and Mortality
When last you heard from this correspondent, I was waxing poetical about mountains; specifically, the Torngats in Northern Labrador, which are amongst the oldest on the planet. I suggested that people who have received a very dire Diagnosis often think about mountains. Those with vestiges of health and energy sometimes even clamber up the blighters, perhaps because (to paraphrase and expand upon something said by George Mallory) the mountains are there, and very shortly the climbers will no longer be so. Mountains make good launching pads-for rumination about mortality, speculation about the afterlife, vaulting into the unknown.
From The National Post, December 4, 2009. For the full article, go to http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2304208
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