The only constants in this unfolding landscape are the route ahead and the horizon on a sea of eternal blue.
Tonight we will sleep upon this mountain and dream about the route ahead, as well as the desires and fears that brought us here.
But the route ahead is strewn with traps.
20 Feb-20 Mar Instincts as well as friends and colleagues become ways to detect the route ahead.
The commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Matt Bazeley, fired a rocket that pulled 200 metres of a fat, coiled hose out over the route ahead.
With its bright seven-inch (about 18 cm) display, the navigation system provides turn-by-turn instructions in a soothing voice along with clear images of the route ahead.
A spokesman for Nepal's Tourism Ministry, Mohan Krishna Sapkota, told the AFP news agency that all the climbers involved were of Nepali origin and had been preparing the route ahead of the main spring climbing season, which starts in a matter of days.
With about a kilometre to go to the finish line at the Sambodromo parade grounds, a man with a sign jumped over barriers along the route ahead of Sumgong and the other runners, and two security forces on bikes immediately cut him off.
The brain regions take on different roles to meet our needs, with one keeping track of the distance to our destination as the crow flies, and the other chipping in to calculate the actual distance of the route ahead when we reach a junction.
Anticipation builds most easily when the route ahead is clear.
