Where are the holes in art? A brief search through the history of art up to the present reveals a paucity of holes either depicted in pictures or actually created by artists. Why is this so?

I feel that I haven’t experiences many peculiar or strange things in high mountains. One thing would be dreams. Dreams of people who have long ago died - my father, mother, older sister. Whenever I go to the Himalayas I almost always dream of them. I wonder why.

In August 1980 Reinhold Messner stood on the summit of Mt Everest for the second time. He was the first person to climb the mountain alone, and without the use of supplementary oxygen.

1980年8月、ラインホルト・メスナーは二度目のエベレスト登頂を果たした。単独で成し遂げたのは彼が初めてで、それも無酸素登頂だった。