Journal Fragment

...Summit within a day's climbing.  Again the ascent has been unremarkable. This planet's mountains are too easy.  Mars!  Now there's a planet for mountaineering!

Bitches in short supply on Everest.  I could bring my own, but that would interfere with the discipline.  I don't do this sort of thing for my health.

Will be speaking to Bill later.  I suppose he'll have some story about how he and his wife are saving the world, one cheque at a time.  I still laugh when I remember that night in Caracas when -

(The fragment ends here.  - Ed.)