Michael Romano
08-30-2013, 06:14 PM
I was in my car a few years back, it was about 12 am. I was tuned into K E R A, that night they were airing this short story. I'm pretty sure it's fiction.
This is the best I can do.
The Narrator had a deep, raspy, cigarette ridden voice. In the background there was a kind of Jazz music playing.
He tells the story of how he and his friends decided to climb the K2 mountain(I'm not sure if it was K2 or a different mountain), he goes over where it is and then states that they decided to climb the mountain their way.
So they purchases barbecues and a few other odds and ends besides climbing gear.
As the story progresses they eventually are on a boat going toward the mountain. While riding, they decide to take acid or lsd, they trip pretty hard
and eventually wind up beached. He states that one of their companions was fornicating with a fish, or a octopus.
Eventually they go into (vaguely remember where they went) I believe a city, and they were constantly mugged. Eventually the local warlords captured them
and I remember this part vividly "And the warlords would demand tribute, and we would give them all of our worldly possessions"
He also described the city "The squalor was breath taking, pandemic"
At one point they were captured and tortured and he stated that one of their friends where beaten to death with rubber truncheons, but all the while the rest of them
where thinking "Yes! This is living, not that bushwa life in the states"
Eventually they were released and came back to the states, they then submitted to the climbers academy (or whatever it's called) their
claim that they had in fact climbed the mountain, transcended it but the academy rejected it.
Any help at all finding this short story or the audio track associated (that would be a plus) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
This is the best I can do.
The Narrator had a deep, raspy, cigarette ridden voice. In the background there was a kind of Jazz music playing.
He tells the story of how he and his friends decided to climb the K2 mountain(I'm not sure if it was K2 or a different mountain), he goes over where it is and then states that they decided to climb the mountain their way.
So they purchases barbecues and a few other odds and ends besides climbing gear.
As the story progresses they eventually are on a boat going toward the mountain. While riding, they decide to take acid or lsd, they trip pretty hard
and eventually wind up beached. He states that one of their companions was fornicating with a fish, or a octopus.
Eventually they go into (vaguely remember where they went) I believe a city, and they were constantly mugged. Eventually the local warlords captured them
and I remember this part vividly "And the warlords would demand tribute, and we would give them all of our worldly possessions"
He also described the city "The squalor was breath taking, pandemic"
At one point they were captured and tortured and he stated that one of their friends where beaten to death with rubber truncheons, but all the while the rest of them
where thinking "Yes! This is living, not that bushwa life in the states"
Eventually they were released and came back to the states, they then submitted to the climbers academy (or whatever it's called) their
claim that they had in fact climbed the mountain, transcended it but the academy rejected it.
Any help at all finding this short story or the audio track associated (that would be a plus) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.