Best Mountaineering Poems

I have never climbed a mountain
or have I wanted to climb one, 
to be perfectly honest.

I have watched others climb
I watched ten men climb a mountain 
named K2, 

strange name it seemed to me -K2.
One of these climbers died,
It was on TV –Discovery Channel.

I sit...

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(Approaching Ingalls Peak, 2012, original oil)

Rites of Passage

Forty-six years ago,
my first winter in the Pacific NW
my first winter break at college,
I headed out to climb Mt Stuart in the North Cascades 
in the company of a couple of older guys.

I’d been climbing for a few...

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