“ . . . I looked down. Observed the world below, all the caves with rats, poor pansions-pensions with cockroaches, houses with yellow scotches and without, gaming-houses, and museums, churches, deserted towers, seemed from above cosy miniature swallows nests on the background of soft greenery of forest-hills and extended afar, afar, absorbed by space a water azure..

And burden and risk of the ascent made sense.” (Summer and Wood)