A Palpable Reality

I had an email yesterday from Adam Munthe, just back from his Finnmark 2007 Expedition, a 1,500km dog sled journey through Arctic Finnmark (the northernmost county in Norway) from the Barents sea to the Atlantic. I hope he won't mind me reproducing a paragraph of it, but the last sentence really struck a chord with me this morning:

"Finally, it must be said the trip was astonishing and magical. We had our ups and downs, our bumps and disagreements. I broke two ribs three days out, and a finger two days later, but we survived, and felt blessed! It reminded me again that we all need to be stretched inside and out, and that pettiness (which we all indulge in) is eliminated through challenge, danger I suppose, and proximity to a palpable reality."

— Filed under Other expeditions