Macfilos authors do get to some interesting places. One, our Australian correspondent No.2 (J. Shingleton being No 1 in seniority), has just returned from somewhere very interesting and very high. He threatens us with another travelogue.
Sherpa Gerlach (clue) has been incommunicado for several weeks, which I thought was very strange. But he has been to new climes and, to prove that he still shuffles on the mortal coil, he
A wristwatch photo
“Now, I’ve never used a camera to catch a wristwatch image. They are generally the realm of those who want to carefully document a special watch or watch collection.
“For me, however, I now realise that I did recently shoot a wristwatch image. It’s purpose wasn’t to photograph the watch but, rather, to document a time and place. At 5,200m altitude it was to remember the lunch-break at 12.46pm on May 24.
“Where was it? Why was I there? What camera did I use? All will be revealed in due course. In the meantime, I’ve got some SD cards to retrieve from a couple of cameras. Watch this space.”
The ever-expanding catalogue of Macfilos photo-journeys is about to start a new, more rarefied, chapter.
Good to know he made it back hoorah 😁
I will look forward to hearing of his adventures.
Dave
Beats my visit to the pubs of Herculaneum for my birthday today, although I did make it to the crater of Vesuvius on Tuesday. The last time that went off was in 1944, 5 years before I was born. The ‘Death Zone’ in the Himalayas was particularly nasty this year. I am glad to hear that Wayne made it back safely.
William
Shhhh….. who mentioned the Himalayas? What about the Jungfrau?
Shhhh ..you’re not supposed to get her involved ..no-one’s supposed to know she’s a secret mountaineer..
Still a virgin at 500 million years.
We-ell, some of us…
Holy Crap where doesn’t he go?
I guess it looks like the Annapurna trail and it might well be the Thorung La pass but of course I may be wrong. Anyway I’m looking forward to Wayne’s image whatever camera he used. Hope his cameras or SD cards didn’t freeze.
Good guess Jean, it does look like Annapurna region.
But no, it was 300km away.
Close, on a global scale.
how did you mange with the height? No altitude sickness?
Jean