Robert L. Peters

23 March 2010

Musing about… the Ibex.

Ibex

Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba

Here’s one for all my climbing buddies (some of whom have made themselves damn scarce of late, if I may say so). Ev’s daughter Jennifer just forwarded the following ditty to me, from one of her 5-year-old son Sam’s favorite* books… eloquently expressing a truism we know all too well.

The daring ibex risk their necks
On scary airy mountain treks.

Each one must climb with skill complex
Or else become an ex-ibex.

*Mammalabilia: poems and paintings by Douglas Florian.

 

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