Next summer i'm planning to go to the mountains again. There's a big probability that i will go to Elbrus again. But also i want to go to Lenin, in Middle Asia. The top of this mountain is 7134 m above sea level. I'm not putting thia as a big goal for reaching beacuse it looks like it's quite hard for women. This year a second estonian woman reached the top of this mountain (her name is Tiina Tamm btw. Which is weird because her namesake also climbed that mountain in 1986 and she died there, she got lost in the snow storm and was never found).
Anyway, there is one more peak there, that is not so high and would be a more realistic goal for me to reach. It's 6148 m above sea level.
If everything works out with my work, then i should be able to make these two trips, they take place one right after the other, so from Caucasus i would be flying straight to Middle Asia. And all together the journey would last about seven weeks. I want to make both trips because seven weeks is quite a long time in a foreign environment and it would surely shake me off. This years journey to Elbrus seemed to pass too quickly.
I will continue later with the thoughts i have about this.
Nice to be home and piss in the toilet bowl ;D
Did you meet some interesting people that you will remain in contact with?
Any ponderings of what this created within.. what did you gain inward to create outward?
what about some pics with a little blurb intersperced...
and some relating of emotional moments
M, i didn't get you a furry hat, but if you like, you can have a local traditional hat ;)
does the head come with it?
Emotionally everything was kind of simple. i felt like switched off, just living a simple life, thinking of simple things, like when to eat, when to go, what to bring with me, how much more to go and so on. most of the time i didn't even think about my life and relations in estonia and didn't miss home. only at the end i started thinking what i would do here. maybe some more reflections will come in time.
Finally got to see those photos - now my connection has clicked over into a new month.
Stunning stuff taimi! And dangerous - I can understand why you didn't go on.
Very beautiful landscapes, with the mountains in such easy reach from the fields, or maybe that's just the camera angle.
I think the photos aren't that great. And when you (and others) say my photos look great, then i think maybe you either want to just please me or don't know much about phorography, sorry.
..or maybe, Taimi, people actually DO like the photos. :-\
I just like your photos!! :D :-*
Hey, i wasn't that serious, i do believe that people like them when they say so.
Just discovering the differences between.... things :D
when i tried to think beforehand, or tried to take photos that would be suitable, i think i felt like losing the magic.
now i will do it my way again :)
just remember that folks don't have to be experts in order to receive the rush of feeling and beauty in pieces of art.
I'll see what i can do ;)
well I just had a look at my pic in the lappy's webcam, but I looked so old and decrepit, that you'll have to wait till someone draws out their proper camera. I'm sure I don't look that bad in the right light.
Taimi, it arrived today!
It is absolutely fabulous! Fits me perfectly.
Julie can't stop laughing - she wants to know if I'm going to wear it to town.
Thank you muchly :-* :-*
is that you playing the guitar? ;)
Cool, did you turn the edge back, as it was on my photo?
Like here: (a little more from the back and less in front)
Glad you like it
;) :-*
The Hat is a Hit! Michael looks most spiffy in it! :D
Thats cool...but i wonder what spiffy means :)