The Transversal

Mountain, Mountain in the NightYou and your two kids have been on the trail for several weeks now and once again you've put at least twelve hours of hiking behind you.Even so, today you manage to tack a good half hour's extension off of the main trail onto that without anybody complaining.For at the end of that side-trek you know a modest clearing awaits you, its surfaces aglow in the golden light of the summer evening's setting sun.On the edge of the clearing there's a perfect spot for two tents, with a fire pit neatly edged in small stones nearby.On all sides of the clearing there are jagged cliffs looming up that lend even the least bit distinct sound an uncanny echo.And nestled at the foot of those craggy peaks are the barely accessible slopes of a primeval forest, which, it's believed, no human hand has touched since the last ice age, at least

Alien · Clearing · Looming · Uncanny · American and British Literature Analysis · Latin American and Latino Studies · Travel Writing and Literature