Sacred Land Blog

June 9, 2007
Pilgrimage to Uch Enmek
Posted by: Toby McLeod

Climbing Uch-Enmek’s moraine in the last moment of sunAfter three days and two nights of slogging through rain, mud and sleet with Danil Mamyev, our indefatigable guide and inspiration, we emerge from the Siberian forest and toe-step up the slick moraine to where Danil has lit a fire and begun to make his offering to the mountain. Though we are soaked to the bone, it has been dry for the past ten minutes and Uch Enmek is towering over us in full glory. As cameraman Will Parrinello struggles to get the camera ready and the lens dry, everything changes: in a matter of twenty seconds, a huge gray cloud slides across the sawtooth-like peak thwarting our efforts to film the mountain and reminding us of man’s necessary humility.

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