In a YouTube video, I Saw an Alpine Ibex Goat
climb a near vertical dam wall in the alps.
As I watched him climb that wall, it was like
standing on a building hundreds of feet
above the ground looking down with fear
in my trembling heart,
afraid that at any moment the Ibex would
fall off the wall over a hundred feet to
the ground and be crushed to death
from the impact on the rocks below.
Yet, like a human impossibly walking on water,
the ibex miraculously scaled the wall.
And it did it with what looked like a supernatural,
fearless, death-defying skill.
Hail Alpine Ibex, king of perilous heights!
Bob Boyd