Between Heaven And Earth
“The Finns, who had to stay with us through the climb, occasionally looked over the edge, laughing and pointing and taking pictures. I wasn’t looking, I wasn’t laughing and I wasn’t taking pictures. I needed both my hands free to cling to the handholds on the rock face.
The path snaked back and forth across the face of the cliff. At times it was almost level and wide, and then it would shoot upward and narrow until it was impossible to be away from the drop. With each step up, each meter of elev...ation gained, the drop got bigger. At this point, almost an hour into the climb, it really didn’t matter. Fall over the edge and you were dead, whether it was 50 meters or 150 meters…actually it was probably more than 150 meters because we were more than two-thirds of the way up.
At least that’s what Mr. Odogo had told us. I just didn’t know if I could believe him. He was always underestimating the time or distance left. I’d learned that “twenty minutes” meant closer to an hour.MoreLess
The path snaked back and forth across the face of the cliff. At times it was almost level and wide, and then it would shoot upward and narrow until it was impossible to be away from the drop. With each step up, each meter of elev...ation gained, the drop got bigger. At this point, almost an hour into the climb, it really didn’t matter. Fall over the edge and you were dead, whether it was 50 meters or 150 meters…actually it was probably more than 150 meters because we were more than two-thirds of the way up.
At least that’s what Mr. Odogo had told us. I just didn’t know if I could believe him. He was always underestimating the time or distance left. I’d learned that “twenty minutes” meant closer to an hour.MoreLess
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