Talk Without Speaking

Looking at the smiling, inspiring pictures now, it’s easy to forget what it’s like to be up there and the specialness that exists there. As it was before, throw your sense of time and space out the window; they won’t do you any good here. There were, in fact, literally times when I didn’t know whether I should be eating breakfast or dinner. I knew the date but struggled for a minute to figure out the day of the week.

I can’t capture Auyuittuq and describe the majesty. The pics *are* beautiful but…well…they can’t attest although they try their best.

Perhaps it looks easy from these pics - it does to me taking a look back at them. But it wasn’t. And neither should it be. To proceed through this valley successfully, respectfully and safely - that I’m very proud of. To see Asgard first teasing us through the clouds and then blowing us all away in the sunshine of the next day - that I will never, ever forget.

I wondered why it was important for me to go back - forget for the moment the life to do list. But there is a state of mind, focus and clarity that comes from being reliant upon yourself and your friends, of knowing that if it isn’t in your backpack then you don’t have it and you can’t get it - this is a way of life which is next to impossible to find in the city. As Jen said, you think about what is most important. And that is extraordinarily precious.