Chapter 65, Mount Blank
Those canyons and dessert scenes brought back memories of me and Yossi Sha’abi climbing the cliffs over the beach in Netanya. We even fell down 30 feet once. A while before, we saw a movie about some mountain climbers climbing the Himalayas or was it the Alpines, I don’t remember. It influenced me and inspired me to start climb hills and cliffs. Yossi and I put on our sneakers and found some ropes and started exploring Netanya’s cliffs over the beach together. Now that we got back to Shfeya from our GAD’NA trip, I collected the rope I used to scare Leah. As soon as school session was over, I dropped my books on my bed and walked to the fence around the village. I packed a water canteen and went to search for walls to climb. A little east of our school there was a lime quarry. The whole eastern side of the hill was carved down, forming a tall white wall. “Mount Blank” I called it, a perfect wall for climbing. I had to leave the school grounds through tear in the fence to get closer. I f...