Proof

Some pictures that my neighbor took of me during our mountaineering trip that I would normally think of as creepy but of which I am instead appreciative because I have no other photographic evidence of my first excursion into the Vosges tundra:

before heading out

 

on our way to la crete (the crest)

learning how to walk sideways up the snow

 

practicing falling and catching myself with the icepick

dying

i'm the one in grey

a shady shot through the trees... a well-captured memory nonetheless