<<I'm glad it helped ease your mind; you've been taken in by the Kantian Sublime, I see.>> I lived there for some years before reality (not Reality) set in. <<If you want to view 'ice towers,' look at http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl/p/photo_id__161703__object_i d__48__type__mountain__mountain_id__48__route_id____user_id____order_by____lim it__>> Unbelievably gorgeous. Like the astronauts space-walking, it would be worth everything they've sacrificed and given to see what they were privileged to (fix my grammar, someone).. <<the infamous Khumbu ice field on the way up Mt. Everest. (If anyone can spot the climbers in the picture, let me know; I can't.)>> I think they're the little dots that look like miniature ants.... And this one is decidedly Sisyphian...... _http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl/p/photo_id__152937__object_ id__48__type__mountain__mountain_id__48__route_id____user_id____order_by__&use r_name=&user_id_ (http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl/p/photo_id__152937__object_id__48__type__mountain__mountain_id__48__route_id____user_id_ ___order_by__&user_name=&user_id) = Oh to be 20 and have energy again. What I would see. Julie Krueger