Mail by Runner 5: A Poem From the High Himalaya

"Slowly the sun dipped into a red bath of cloud. The stark world of black and white leaped into brilliant colour, only to die away into the cruel monotone of a Himalayan night.

Human dots in immensity of blackness, we turned uneasily away, and between the confining walls of the tent acted out once again man's great self-deception - the creation of a world small enough for him to comprehend."

- Jim Wilson's recount of the first expedition on Taweche, accompanied by Mike Gill, during the 1963 expedition.