Risky AdVenture

But, then, nothing ventured,

nothing gained as the old

adage contesting the

caution-afflicted in a

genial chide would have it.

Those who rise to the challenge

never quite see the implied

and very real dangers posing

a problem for themselves

for they are possessed of

all the athletic elements

of strength and endurance

required for success in

their venture to ascend

challenging heights and meet

weather extremes.  That

confrontation between caution

and fearful opposition is

not one they need struggle

with, their confidence in self

is supreme.  And they will

take the risk to achieve their

personal triumph.  Relieved to

have completed the impossible

made possible, they speak of

those whom fate and fortitude

failed, left to perish, their

frozen bodies ever memorialized

in their vain efforts to

summit and to survive.