Dr. Charlie Houston is wondering higher mountains

Dr. Charlie Houston is one of the world’s great humans, great mountaineers, great explorers and great humans. Charlie was a great guy.

It took me awhile to write this. It is very hard to describe the effect meeting Charlie had on me and I was not sure I could or should convey that.

If you want to know about him you should listen to this interview by Bill Moyer.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/houston_now_flash.html

You can read his autobiography Brotherhood of the Rope by Bernadette McDonald

You need to read his books, Five Miles High and K2 Savage Mountain. They stand out for what is not in the books, acrimony, arguments and fights. What does standout is the idea that a group of people bound together by a rope were, were going to go together to the summit or back to the world.

The world is short a wonderful person with his passing.

The Fellowship of the Rope, short an anchor.