A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.