Article: Drakensberg Diaries: Need Redemption? Drakensberg, Drakensberg
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Drakensberg Diaries: Need Redemption? Drakensberg, Drakensberg
Overwhelmed by the moral decadence you see in others? Perhaps in yourself? Then you?re going to need more from a holiday than just a break: you don?t want escape, you want redemption.
Well don?t feel too badly about it. A couple of hundred years ago some rather talented people felt pretty much the same way. Like Rousseau. Byron. Wordsworth. Turner. And a whole raft of others. Exhausted by the squalor and brutality of a rapidly industrialising Europe, they found their redemption in the Alps.
This was a new one. For 2000 years mountains had been considered nothing more than a nuisance. Unproductive, obstacles to communication and the refuge of bandits and heretics.
Not any more. ?Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with re...
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