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David Canning shares the context behind his poem 'You and the Mountain' and explores the tensions that a passion for mountains can bring to family life.
A full life is a plurality lived as versions of a self driven by singular and consistent passions. Lover, husband, father, friend, son, colleague, writer and climber; however I describe myself, I am wholly and completely one of these things or all of them at once. They compete with each other for my attention, for my affection, for my time, as aggregates, as equal facets, a quantum of my whole self.
Climbers know this feeling of wanting to live all of their lives at once, and paying the price.
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