Cory Richardsのインスタグラム(coryrichards) - 4月13日 23時24分
It's easy to convince ourselves that environments have moods...and certainly there are belief systems that would hold to that. I tend to think that we bring our emotions to the mountains...and the mountains themselves are the planet's greatest mirror.
On the day I took this image in 2016, we climbed through snow and cloud. The heat caused by the convection cycle triggered repeated small avalanches that would rumble over seracs obscured by a thick fog on either side. This day, and the mood that I was bringing to it was reminiscent of a not so good day I had in the mountains several years ago when one of the distant rumbles became not so distant and engulfed my partners and I. My neuro-chemistry has never recovered.
That day I was looking in the mirror at a fear that I've never overcome. That day, because I was angry, the mountains were angry. As I climbed the slope beneath the seracs (which are almost as safe as they come), I felt my heart rate increase and my breathing become labored. I was scared, and that made me mad.
But the truth is the mountains are indiscriminate. They don't care. They shine when it is sunny and they fall when it is snowy. It's what we bring to them that defines our experience...and maybe even more important, its how we are changed by them and what we bring home and share that matters most.
I am excited, scared, humbled to experience how the mountains will change me on this new journey through a familiar - yet different - landscape.
Continue to #followme + @Keith Ladzinski + @estebantopomena to see our real time stories as we now make our way across the Tibetan plateau from Lhasa to #everest basecamp.
#mentalhealthawareness #climbing #adventure #transformation
[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)
dulcey88
Funny how people come and go, and when you least expect it, someone’s words pierce your soul... almost reverberate back like they’re yours. I felt that way when I heard you speak last year in Telluride. I thought I was hearing myself. Your humility blessed me. The last morning at coffee talk I told myself that I was going to simply thank you. I didn’t. I’m thanking you now☺️. Take that amazing fragile mind of yours, listen to what Mother Earth is telling you, you never know what you may hear back... climb safe. I meant it, on my post the other day, I want to hear more of your stories. #mindfulEverest
claire21b
Face. Everything. And. Rise. I’m note sure that anyone can overcome what you’ve been through. Your words are so moving. Millions of people are supporting you and your team worldwide. Waiting for your fabulous photos. You and your team are just great climbers (and photographes, and crottées, and...). Yes you can do it. ✨ thank you for offering us all this beauty.
bellman27
You have , with great eloquence of metaphor, presented one of the great truths of our existence... that being, that life is mostly about what we bring to it. Substitute the word ‘mountain’ for job or marriage or parenthood and your thesis rings true. Here’s to mirrors Cory Richards. xo
susansalas76
I dream about seeing this great mountain. When I see your pictures my eyes well up with tears. I can imagine how I would feel if i where to ever accomplish something so great and powerful and scary! Thank you for sharing your love of adventure with us.
jjacarandosa
That totally reminds me of my first time in a snowy mountain ?. Thanks for reminding me that everything depends on whether we control our emotions or we let our emotions control us. May you all have a kind trip. ?
johnhartwellhooker
I find hiking to be a cure for the mind becauSe of exactly what you’re talking about here. It makes you deal with yourself good and bad.
>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する
