The best skill isn’t how to cross a river, it’s knowing when not to cross Looking at large rivers is mesmerising. The constantly-changing surface pattern occasionally interrupted by a breaking wave, while just below the surface the water relentlessly pushes itself down valley. Looking at sizable rivers you need to get across is even more […]
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A river rules my life