...I talk about it, write about it, and think about it all time. Sometimes it just shows up at your door, and when it does you sure as hell better pick it up.
Eight Year Anniversary, by Jonathan Makiri.
Half Dome from Jonathan Makiri on Vimeo.
Eight years ago today my mother should have died. During a hail storm, while descending Half Dome’s cables in Yosemite, she slipped and fell 80 feet, landing on a small ledge. Without the ledge my mom would have fallen to her death thousands of feet below. My then 16-year old brother watched the whole thing happen.
Getting off the phone with my father when he broke the news to me, I had one overriding emotion: anger. Having been to Half Dome a few times myself, I had told her not to do the cables.
She survived and life continued doing what it does.
