The above image of 300 climbers waiting in line to summit Mount Everest appeared on what poses as the ABC evening news. I am appalled. As far as I am aware there are no lines to sail alone around Cape Horn.
Even though I don’t agree with it completely, I thank Chris for: The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. —Victor Hugo
And today at the bottom of an email from a magazine editor: In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.—Michel Foucault