Shadow of the Mountain (2012)
“26.Closing the door quietly behind her, Geneva hoisted her pack onto her shoulders and headed for the shed. She’d packed food and water bottles alongside her climbing gear, and the sky above the mountain was showing clear in the growing light. Today was the day. Excitement whispered in her belly.
On the ride she kept her thoughts in neutral, avoiding thinking about what lay ahead. It was enough to concentrate on the road and the ungainly weight on her back. There were no cars — it was too e...arly for that, just hitting six-thirty as she locked the bike out of sight behind a shrubby manuka at the edge of the car park and rearranged her load.An hour’s hike to the base of the first climb, and from there she’d follow the course Keith had set, the first few pitches ones she knew she could handle.The sun was beginning to warm the rock by the time she reached the face where she’d freaked out, her emotions sent into a tailspin by a falling stone. Geneva rested against the wall of rock, feeling its contours against her back as she stared out across the pleats of distant farmland, and closer, the lower slopes of the mountain.MoreLess
On the ride she kept her thoughts in neutral, avoiding thinking about what lay ahead. It was enough to concentrate on the road and the ungainly weight on her back. There were no cars — it was too e...arly for that, just hitting six-thirty as she locked the bike out of sight behind a shrubby manuka at the edge of the car park and rearranged her load.An hour’s hike to the base of the first climb, and from there she’d follow the course Keith had set, the first few pitches ones she knew she could handle.The sun was beginning to warm the rock by the time she reached the face where she’d freaked out, her emotions sent into a tailspin by a falling stone. Geneva rested against the wall of rock, feeling its contours against her back as she stared out across the pleats of distant farmland, and closer, the lower slopes of the mountain.MoreLess
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