23.15 Tozal de Mallo, a trail of thrills, action and failure.
The contents of this blog deal with the mindset some of us have in tricky positions as well as action shots, for a change. Please excuse the abundance of self-photographs but they are useful in 'fleshing out' the narrative and setting the scene for this section of the Pyrenees Mountains. The night before, it looked like we could enter Heaven by taking the gap. 'Tip-toe through the tulips'; maybe stay on the whole foot, or four if you have that many. We realized while lying in bed on Wednesday night what a day we had endured, more likely, enjoyed. However, what really struck us was the level of danger we faced. We had an eerier feeling thinking of the earlier risks as we dozed than the actual fear felt on the cliffs. These periods of risk creep up on one incrementally until something in the mind says ‘enough’. Is that the time to exercise caution and perhaps wisdom or is it a time of being courageous and continuing? Who knows because it is a matte...