Hilary Or Tenzing Poem by Douglas Scotney
Hilary Or Tenzing
A fascinating but slow
switch-backed ascent
threatened a comparatively quick
straight slide down the other side.
Not happy to end like that,
the two detoured to
a lyrical precipitous climb
followed by a meandering balladic glide.
As if in a dream, after that
they glided and slid to the bottom.
Asked which bottomed first, slided or glid,
the two would say, 'Either did.'
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8/20/2026 10:31:28 PM # rel_20260813T193622Z_3aad590
A nice take on the controversy of the first.+++10 Robert