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Adventure Coaching Blog
Just one breath
This is probably one of the hardest blog posts I have ever had to write.
And, it is something of a miracle that I can write it.
Our climb of Mount Cook proved much harder than anything I have ever done before. The weather turned out to be vicious and Aoraki the "cloud piercer" brushed her icy hand over me to remind me of my mortality and that I climb on her ground on her terms.
You can read a newspaper version of the story here as I don't want to go through the whole saga again.
What I want to talk about here as I tap with 2 fingers (the rest of my hands are recovering but have been damaged by the cold) is what emerges from an experience like this?
Honestly, it is early days but here is a sneak peek under the lid of a couple of things that are emerging.
Breath of Life
When you don't know if you will ever take another breath... and then you do... it makes a simple thing like breathing in seem oh so sweet.
And actually, we just never do know where our next breath will come from.
So go on... take a great, deep, sweet breath and savour it
- suck it up like a fabulous sip of the best and most expensive wine ever,
Roll it around in your mouth and absorb its richness.
Imagine the oxygen molecules racing to your brain, heart, lungs
lighting them up with exuberance, strength, hope...
Then ease it all out, confident that there is plenty more to go around.... this time.
This is life with all else stripped bare.
A BIG second chance
To say I am hugely grateful for a second chance at life doesn't even come close (thanks to the strength and selflessness of my amazing climbing buddy - but she probably does not want to make a fuss, so I won't ).
I have been given a very rare opportunity to look death right in its hairy eyeball. And am still here to tell you about it.
But I'm not yet ready to say what that means... watch, as it unfolds, and join me as the whole new world opens up (it already is).
What would you do with a chance like that?
Posted by Sarah Wilson on 24th November, 2011 | Comments (1)
Tags: Cook to Cook
Glad you're still breathing :-)Thanks for sharing this Sarah and glad to hear you're going to be with us for a bit longer yet continuing to be an inspiration to others. Posted on 25 November, 2011 by Richard Post a CommentHTML is not allowed in comments, http://... will be automatically linked.
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