How true! When do we ever expect the unexpected? The lightning that strikes out of blue sky? Well, I didn’t, and it did. 

Having climbed in the morning several hard-severe frozen waterfalls in peak shape, in the afternoon I looked right into a silently falling chunk of ice. This was on a free hanging ice pinnacle both my friend and I had already climbed (I wanted to repeat it because it felt so good).

Several bones around the eye were fractured and the eye severely damaged. Two operations later, doctors will not commit themselves to predictions. A third operation is scheduled at the end of March - when I had planned to be in Patagonia to try a virgin peak…

Now I am climbing a different mountain. Nobody knows how long it will take.