CBS News‘ Lara Logan reports on free solo mountain climber Alex Honnold, who seems to defy gravity, scaling sheer, steep rock faces with no rope and apparently no fear.
I have to wonder what Honnold thinks of the two men who recently “free climbed” El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite… WITH ROPES.
Don’t watch if you have a fear of heights.
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
In his great triptych “The Millennium,” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller’s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller’s life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place―one of the most colorful in the United States―and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the “Devil in Paradise” who is one of Miller’s greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book―the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and clichés of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise.
