Hole in the Clouds


Tag: Kootenays

Stepping Up

Sep 11, 2013

The climb must have been going pretty well, straight up the wall of Mt. Gimli, in Canada's Kootenay Rockies. And then Hank stopped for a moment and looked down.

We might speculate that looking down would be a terrible thing to do. But all the evidence suggests that Hank just calmly snapped a picture of his own right foot and then went back to climbing on up.

He and Pat, his climbing partner, summited, rappelled down, hiked back out to their car, and drove into town to find something to eat.

For the record: They wore their helmets and harnesses and utilized their ropes and stuff. No mammals were injured in the making of this photograph.

landscape   birdseye view   British Columbia   self-portrait   Mt. Gimli   Kootenays   gneiss   (Image credit: Hank Stein)