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11 December 2012
La vie aux bouts des doigts
Solo and ropeless
Edlinger climbs out
underneath an overhang,
hangs effortlessly off one arm
several hundred feet
off the ground while
dipping the other
into a bag of chalk,
utterly indifferent
to the danger,
before swinging his foot
into a crack above his head
and pulling himself up.
From the obituary of Patrick Edlinger, 15 June 1960 – 16 November 2012, in the Daily Telegraph. Submitted by Angi Holden.
2 comments:
The economy of language is excellent and the image so vivid. Well done!
David Subacchi
Thank you David. And cheers - I'd been on holiday and wouldn't have heard of Edlinger's death, had it not been for you!
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