The Mountain Between Us

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OMGG I MUST SEE THIS MOVIE. I'd seen the poster for it, but didn't know what it was about till Tina posted a link on my Facebook. That is absolutely 100% my kind of movie lol..I got chills watching the trailer! It's also a book, which I might have seen before..I've heard of Charles Martin anyway. I'll have to see if I can find it lol


I love John Muir lol, he was so cool. The book was written by the preacher Muir was with. Here are some passages I liked

"Glaciers were Muir's special pets, his intimate companions, with whom he held sweet communion" (I want a pet glacier!! Haha)

"Somehow a glacier never seemed cold when John Muir was talking about it" (nice :P)

"I've been a thousand feet down in the crevasses, with matchless domes and sculptured figures and carved ice-work all about me. Solomon's marble and ivory palaces were nothing to it. Such purity, such color, such delicate beauty! I was tempted to stay there and feast my soul, and softly freeze, until I would become part of the glacier. What a great death that would be!"

"Without consulting me Muir named this 'Young Glacier,' and right proud was I to see that name for the next ten years...but later maps have a different name. Some ambitious young ensign on a surveying vessel, perhaps, stole my glacier, and later charts gave it the name of Dawes. I have not found in the Alaskan statute books any penalty attached to the crime of stealing a glacier, but certainly it ought to be ranked as a felony of the first magnitude, the grandest of grand larcenies" (LOL!)

"Suddenly from top to bottom of the ice cliff two deep lines of prussian blue appeared. They were crevasses made by the ice current flowing more rapidly in the center of the stream. Fascinated, I watched this great pyramid of blue-veined onyx lean forward until it became a tower of Pisa, with fragments falling thick and fast from its upper apex and from the cliffs out of which it had been split. Breathless and anxious, I awaited the final catastrophe, and its long delay became almost a greater strain than I could bear. I jumped up and down and waved my arms and shouted at the glacier to 'hurry up'" (HAHA, I have totally done that before :P)

"After the usual examination the physician asked, 'What do you generally do for a cold?'
'Oh,' said Muir, 'I shiver it away'
'Explain yourself,' said the puzzled doctor
'We-ll,' drawled Muir, 'two or three years ago I camped by the Muir Glacier for a week. I had caught just a cold as this from the same cause--a stuffy stateroom. So I made me a little sled out of spruce boughs, put a blanket and some sea biscuit on it and set out up the glacier. I got into a labyrinth of crevasses and a driving snowstorm, and had to spend the night on the ice ten miles from land. I sad on the sled all night or thrashed about it, and had a dickens of a time; I shivered so hard I shook the sled to pieces. When morning came my cold was all gone. That is my prescription, Doctor. You are welcome to use it in your practice'" (OMG LOL wow..cured by a glacier!)

"Muir never grew old. After he was sixty years of age (as men count age) some of his most daring feats of mountain climbing and some of his longest journeys into the wilds were undertaken. When he was past seventy he was still tramping and camping in the forests and among the hills. When he was seventy-three he made long trips to South America and Africa, and to the very end he was exploring, studying, working and enjoying" (awesome <3)


Today's trivia: The British royal family isn't allowed to play Monopoly