Occasionally other climbers see his thin ghost on the mountainside

Wearing a mauve sweater and lightweight flannel trousers

He is ready to climb once more

Off again. gorgeous day! he writes

 

The glacier often grows tired and gives up her weary dead

But soon realises her clumsy mistake and returns them to the ice

Yet she knows that no matter how hard she tries

She will be able not tame Maurice Wilson

 

 

Inspired by the Daily Mail article about the life and subsequent death of the English eccentric Maurice Wilson on Mount Everest in 1934