“Great things are done when men and mountains meet; these are not done by jostling on the street.”

Those backboned sentiments were written more than a century before the first tourists began to hit the trekking trails of the world, and indeed many decades before the first records of the confrontation between mountain and the ego of man hit the bookshelves. William Blake managed to cut through a lot of the nonsense that comes with bivouacs, crampons and perhaps the greatest of all climbing evils. Read the full article…

Financial Times, Jan 06, 2007