thoughts from the mountains

Lauterbrunan is very beautiful. I recommend it to anyone who likes mountains. I can now snowboard and that will be good for my street cred.There were 3 times as many blokes as girls which was very cool.I was pursued by an 18 year old boy-he thought I was about 20, poor fellow. 18 is too young for me.I liked his comment when he said he doesn't like watching boring programmes like Eastenders, neighbours and the News.Classic comment.I think I pushed myself a lot that holiday-one day I snowboarded from 9am till 8pm because we lost our way.It is amazing what humans are capable of......I am reading 'The Beckoning silence' by Joe Simpson (who wrote 'Touching the void') it is incredible what climbers can achieve and put themselves through.They feel more alive when on the brink of death. Love val