They be restless, inquisitive, driven and hardy souls
their search endless and riven with danger that
only experience can adequately delineate. The
volcanologist, maritime and geology explorer
the mountaineer and the pioneer space traveler
share that indisputable human quality quantitatively
rare and profoundly treacherous to human longevity.
Why risk immersing oneself in a submersible deep
in the Mariana Trench in the knowledge that should
the potential vulnerability of the sphere be breached
the fiercely immense pressure of water risks oblivion.
The fire burning in the ambition of mariners to
single-handedly circumnavigate the globe through
the Southern Ocean route where the most brutal
storms on this blue planet can build waves that
would engulf the height of a skyscraper amidst
winds capable of dismantling the most robust of
ships threaten, fail to dissuade the restless minds
wedded to success. And nor do the threats inherent
in tackling the world's highest most inaccessible peaks
where gale-force storms can bury a mountainside
in snow and ice higher than a man is tall and where
oxygen-deprived brains suffering deadly hypoxia
leading to death, influence the decisions of those
with faith in themselves contemplating conquest.
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