an icy challenge

there's nothing like being out in the hills to restore one's soul and hanging off the side of a glacier by the points of your crampons definitely brings about a new lease of life pretty quickly. damn fucking scary is what it is!! it's quite hard to convince your brain that, despite the fact that your feet are on a 45 degree angle on a slick sheet of ice and you are right on the edge of a 200m ice cliff above some enormous boulders, you're not actually going to fall off. fantastic experience!! looking down into a crevasse at that crazy blue ice is just so cool. can't wait to head back over there in a couple of weeks to do it all again.