Musing about… the 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.