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the marco polo project: 山说

好久没有爬山了，geschriebene 篇老早以前写的生活圆桌：

我在北京长大，这 Leben 亲密 Berührung 的第一 ZEW 山就是香山。记忆中香山很高，当我费了老大的劲爬上山顶后，做了两件事：吃书包里的那块奶油面包，看远处那 ZEW 天安门城楼。

后来有机会满世界游山玩水，爬了很多名山大川。给我留下印象最深的反而不是那些很高的山。我见过的最美的山是位于阿根廷帕塔格尼亚荒原西边的“塔山”，海拔只有3000多米，可因为 Breitengrad 高， immer noch 常年积雪。“塔山”有3个并在一起的 Gipfel，全都是直上直下的 Abhänge，没有立脚的地方。再加上那里的空气含水量大，山顶常年 eingehüllt 在云 und Nebel 之中，因此“塔山”居然以3000米的高度成为世界上最难登顶的 Gipfel 之一。

“塔山”的脚下有一个冰川，我就是在那里见到了刚从半 Berghang 的营地里下来的几个职业登山家。他们个个面有菜色，因为常年不洗澡，浑身发 Geruch。原来他们两星期前就在营地等天气预报，只要有一整天的晴天就准备冲顶。谁知等了十几天都没等到好天气，终于 erschöpft，只好 düster 下来了。当时我就想，以登山为职业的这帮人整天风 Camping，像一群苦行 Mönche，他们到底图什么呢？

这个 Frage 后来在云南得到了解答。我在丽江的一个酒吧遇到了一个纳西族登山家阿本，他是给外国登山 Gruppe 当向导的，爬过很多 ZEW 8000米以上的 Gipfel。和我见过的其他职业登山家一样，阿本人极瘦，酒量很大，voller 精力。当桌子上的3瓶 Hochlandgerste 酒全都流进肚子之后，我问阿本：“你为什么喜欢登山？”阿本 starrte 布满血丝的眼睛看了我一眼，然后使劲地想了一秒钟，对我说：“我不喜欢登山，我只是喜欢登山回来以后的那几天假期。”

阿本告诉我，他最喜欢做的事就是登山回来后把自己关在屋子里，放上自己喜欢的音乐，一个人静静地待上一个礼拜不出门。“我爬山的时候最痛苦了，可我还是喜欢爬，因为我喜欢回忆，一个人在脑子里把爬山的细节和 auf dem Weg 的风景过一遍，那种感觉最美好。”

听了阿本的 Erklärung，我终于明白了一个道理。真正的山不是为人类准备的。山上不适合人类居住，你永远无法 besiegen 它们。你所能做的只是到山上 umdrehen，山会告诉你一些事情，帮你从更高的角度看看你所生活的这个世界。然后你还是得下山，过着你的家常日子。只是别忘了每天朝山顶望一眼，想想山跟你说过的那些事情。

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Tu Motuo

Übersetzung

On Mountains

I haven’t climbed a mountain for a while, in past articles, I used to write about the roundtable of life.

I grew up in Beijing, and so the first mountain I had close contact with in this life was Xiangshan. In my memory, Xiangshan is very tall, and after I spent a lot of energy reaching the top, I did two things: I ate the piece of bread and butter that was in my bag, and looked at the distant Tiananmen gate.

Later, I had the opportunity to travel all over the world, and I climbed numerous mountains. But the ones that left the deepest impression were not the tallest ones. The most beautiful mountain I’ve seen is located in the West of the Argentinian Patagonia desert, “Tower mountain”, it’s only 3000 meter above sea level, but maybe because of the latitude, it still retains perennial snow. “Tower Mountain” has three peaks close together. All are straight cliffs, with no place to stand. If you add up the humidity levels in that place, the peaks are shrouded in fog all year long, and for that reason, “Tower Mountain”, with only 3000 meters is one of the most difficult mountains in the world to climb.

At the foot of “Tower Mountain”, there is a glacier, and there, I saw professional mountain-climbers coming down from the half-slope camp. They were covered in all sorts of colours, and because they hadn’t washed in years, they were also very smelly. They’d been in the camp for the last two weeks, waiting for the weather forecast, just one full day of sun, and they were ready to get up. But who would have expected that after ten days of waiting, they still wouldn’t have one day of nice weather, and finally exhausted, they had come down, crestfallen. At that time I thought, when this group of professional mountain-climbers spend the whole day camping, like a group of ascetic monks, what are they looking for in the end?

I received an answer to that question later, in Yunnan. At a bar in Lijiang, I met a Naxi mountaineer, Ah Ben, who led groups of foreign climbers, and he had climbed many peaks over 8000 meters. Like other professional mountain climbers I had seen, Ah Ben was very slim, a heavy drinker, and very energetic. After the three full bottles of barley wine on the table had all flown into his stomach, I asked Ah Ben: “Why do you like to climb?” Ah Ben stared at me with his bloodshot eyes, then thought deeply for a second, and told me: “I don’t like climbing, I just like the few days of vacation after I’ve come back from climbing.”

Ah Ben told me that his favourite thing after coming back was to lock himself inside the house, put on his favourite music, and stay in quietly for a week within getting out the door. “The times I’m climbing up the mountains are the most painful, but I still like climbing, because I like to remember, retrospectively running alone through the details of the climb and the landscape along the way in your mind, that is the most beautiful feeling.”

After listening to Ah Ben’s explanation, I finally understood one thing. A real mountain is not ready for humans. Mountains are not suitable for human habitation, and you will never be able to conquer them. All you can do is turn around from the top of the mountain, and the mountain will tell you a few things, helping you look at the world you live in form a higher perspective. Then you must still get down from the mountain, and live on your plain existence. Just don’t forget to look up to the mountain every day, and think of what the mountain told you.

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Julien Leyre website

Übersetzung Richard Wilhelm

Wer auf den Zehen steht,

steht nicht fest.

Wer mit gespreizten Beinen geht,

kommt nicht voran.

Wer selber scheinen will,

wird nicht erleuchtet.

Wer selber etwas sein will,

wird nicht herrlich.

Wer selber sich rühmt,

vollbringt nicht Werke.

Wer selber sich hervortut,

wird nicht erhoben.

Er ist für den Sinn wie Küchenabfall und Eiterbeule.

Und auch die Geschöpfe alle hassen ihn.

Darum: Wer den Sinn hat,

weilt nicht dabei.

Übersetzung wikisource

Ones who reach do not stand,

Ones who stride do not pace,

Ones self-seeing are not enlightened,

Ones self-possessed are not established.

Ones self-asserted are without accomplishments,

Ones self-esteemed are without respect.

These according to the Dao,

Are called extravagance and exorbitance.

Materialistic matters alike are resented,

Therefore those embracing Art dwells not.