In a YouTube video, I Saw an Alpine Ibex Goat
climb a near vertical dam wall in the alps.

As I watched him climb that wall, it was like
standing on a building hundreds of feet

above the ground looking down with fear
in my trembling heart,

afraid that at any moment the Ibex would
fall off the wall over a hundred feet to

the ground and be crushed to death
from the impact on the rocks below.

Yet, like a human impossibly walking on water,
the ibex miraculously scaled the wall.

And it did it with what looked like a supernatural,
fearless, death-defying skill.

Hail Alpine Ibex, king of perilous heights!

Bob Boyd