Miracle that the story does not end
on the October dangerous glacier slopes.
But three days later,
Muir made it back to base camp.
"They seemed unreasonably glad to see me,"
he wrote. And afterwards
in forty years of shared wilderness journeys,
differently told and retold on paper and canvas,
John Muir and William Keith
would be friends for the rest of their lives.

[ the footsteps of St Patrick]