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Appointment in Reutte
Appointment in Reutte
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At the time, Bill is living in Munich, West Germany. With his 21st birthday approaching, he feels like creating a special event to celebrate his own coming of age. He devises a do-it-yourself ceremony. The best place for such a ceremony would be the top of a mountain in Austria.
The fact that it is winter does not faze Bill. He takes a train to Reutte, Austria, where he spends the night in a guest house before setting out on the following morning to climb a nearby mountain. The slopes are covered with snow.
It takes Bill all morning and half of the afternoon to trudge up the slopes toward the summit of the mountain. Almost there, he considers making a dangerous ascent up a cliff to the right but then decides it is not worth risking his life to reach the top. As luck would have it, he finds a path on the other side that leads to the summit.
The air is warm, the scene is still. Bill removes his clothes and performs the ceremony. After savoring the moment, he then heads back down the mountain, not yet out of danger. It grows dark. As evening approaches, he reaches a road back to town. Bill picks up his belongings at the guest house and manages to catch the last train back to Munich. By coincidence, Bill’s adventure happened on the same day in February 1962 that astronaut John Glenn first orbited the earth.
This is the first in a series of Bill Mack’s personal adventure stories. Bill, a college-prepared idealist, is also someone ready to act upon his ideas even if some of them are unrealistic. In this case, Bill is seeking to find a sign of God through the personal experience of climbing a mountain and conducting a self-initiation ceremony
The fact that it is winter does not faze Bill. He takes a train to Reutte, Austria, where he spends the night in a guest house before setting out on the following morning to climb a nearby mountain. The slopes are covered with snow.
It takes Bill all morning and half of the afternoon to trudge up the slopes toward the summit of the mountain. Almost there, he considers making a dangerous ascent up a cliff to the right but then decides it is not worth risking his life to reach the top. As luck would have it, he finds a path on the other side that leads to the summit.
The air is warm, the scene is still. Bill removes his clothes and performs the ceremony. After savoring the moment, he then heads back down the mountain, not yet out of danger. It grows dark. As evening approaches, he reaches a road back to town. Bill picks up his belongings at the guest house and manages to catch the last train back to Munich. By coincidence, Bill’s adventure happened on the same day in February 1962 that astronaut John Glenn first orbited the earth.
This is the first in a series of Bill Mack’s personal adventure stories. Bill, a college-prepared idealist, is also someone ready to act upon his ideas even if some of them are unrealistic. In this case, Bill is seeking to find a sign of God through the personal experience of climbing a mountain and conducting a self-initiation ceremony
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