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这是地理杂志里的一篇文章,虽然短小,要翻译好不简单。请高手练笔赐教
Climbing mountains has taught me more about photography than nearly anything else I’ve done, and this month’s story on Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountaineer of all, reminds me why.
As a young man I climbed Oregon’s Cascades. Later, as a photographer, I tackled peaks in Alaska, Canada, Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Every ascent gave me the joy of accomplishment. Each had something to teach. Digging out from an avalanche in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains taught me lesson number one: how to “handle situations,” as Messner says. Learn to be calm in the face of chaos. Lesson number two: perseverance. “If you have to crawl on hands and knees, you’re going to get there,” said the late Barry Bishop, a Geographic staffer and a member of the first American expedition to summit Everest. The last lesson: observation. Pay attention to the weather, your gear, and every step you take.
Climbing mountains stretches you physically and mentally. You tap reserves you never knew you had. Doubt evaporates. You know who you are and what you can do. The secret of Reinhold Messner’s ability to do the impossible-to conquer the highest mountains unaided by oxygen-was this : Messner, said Nena Holguin, his companion on his 1980 Everest climb, ”trusted himself.” |
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