Purpose of my Climbing Log

.
I am using this Climbing section of my blog to record memories of my experiences in mountaineering. It has a strong relevance to my practice of Buddhism.
.
My earliest introduction to Buddhism (in the late 1960s) was through Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, the Beat Zen mountain climbers. They wrote about the ancient Chinese Ch'an/Zen hermit and mountain man, Han Shan, who had written the Cold Mountain Poems.
.
When I returned from the Viet Nam war, I trekked through my own loneliness, seeking healing through climbing, bivouacking, watching the Moon. Some of these memories are seared into my psyche. They define my practice. They define me.
.
-Zenwind.