- published: 03 Sep 2015
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Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed big mountains it has branched into specializations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists of three areas: rock-craft, snow-craft and skiing, depending on whether the route chosen is over rock, snow or ice. All require experience, athletic ability, and technical knowledge to maintain safety.
The UIAA or Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme is the world governing body in mountaineering and climbing, addressing issues like access, medical, mountain protection, safety, youth and ice climbing.
Useful Girl
Richard Dobson
The wind blew from the mountains
And the clouds were sweeping low
As a ragged band
Of Cheyenne Indians
Stopped along the road
Among them was a young girl
Who lay dying of fever
Just about a hundred years ago
A hundred years ago
The light was swiftly fading
And the night it promised snow
So they wrapped her in an army coat
To keep her from the cold
Placed silver thimbles on her fingers
So someone’s God would know
She was a useful girl, who could sew
She could sew
Then darkness swirled around them
Like a curtain on a stage
Like the closing of a door
The turning of a page
They say a lifetime’s over
In a twinkling of an eye
And it hardly counts for nothing
As the ages roll on by
Kings and Queens and Pharaohs
Have left mighty works in stone
Just to let someone know
That’s how the workmen found her
They were widening the road
Wrapped in an army coat
Where they left her long ago
With silver thimbles on her fingers
She slept beneath the snow
A useful girl