![]() ![]() He climbed and trekked to the most pristine vantage points on earth, from which he contemplated his life in the 21st century. Even at high-altitude acclimatization camps, he did not stop writing poems in his 7+2 Mountain Climber's Diary. He has completed the feat called '7+2, ' meaning that he climbed the highest peak on each continent and trekked to the North Pole and South Pole. L uo Ying is a poet, adventurer, and businessman. Christopher Merrill, author of Necessities ![]() For "the mountain god has allowed to bring back from the mountains a way of being that is natural, assured, and collected." This is wisdom literature of the highest order.” "While the rest of the world is sleeping," he writes, "I'm striding toward the light"-and that light shines on every page of this extraordinary book. He documents in searing detail his encounters, in the most extreme conditions, with other climbers, Sherpas, and himself. “Luo Ying's 7 + 2 Mountain Climber's Journal, which he calls "mankind's first '7 + 2 Poetry Action,'" is the poetic record of his successful summiting of the tallest peaks on every continent and his treks to the North and South Poles. While summiting peaks may provide a fleeting moments of nearly omniscient perspective, poetry can serve as lasting passes through which we may cross for generations to come. ![]() Our planet’s most magnificent mountain ranges have long presented humans with forbidding barriers to travel, trade, and communication, and as such have become deeply lodged into our species psyche. It is my hope that these poems become like mountain passes, navigable routes through the mountain range of different languages, cultures, classes, and ecological experiences. “These poems simultaneously celebrate the human spirt and the natural world, just as they critique our impact on the very landscapes within which we dwell. ![]()
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