om mani padme hum

On  a fine saturday afternoon, after a week or turmoil stress and wrong doings, me and pal decided to conquer the pennines, as we live at the foot of one of its highest peaks, we set off on our mission, equiped with feet...wrapped in clingfilm, an apple and a loaf of mouldy norwegian bread, we set off to rid our minds of fog and mist left over from a week of racing rats.

the message!!

beaut

ma trecking pal looking at his hands

the path of the self ritious man with cold feet

There had been a snowfall, so it was pretty damn chilly on the willy but as they say the first step is the hardest. Once we had scaled the first of the peaks, after many false horrizons it begins to level out, so after taking in the beautiful sights of the valley of Mossley, which i take for granted on a daily basis, we began to run, through snow and ice and swamp and sheep shit, after a few hours, soaked and cold we stumbled across a message in the not so virgin snow, it read "om mani padme hum". i thought nothing of it at the time but after doing a bit of research it turns out its a Tibetan mantra, which evokes the compassion of Chenrezig...who the dalai lama is an incarnation of. Anyone, finding this out put a smile on my face and ill be looking more into it.....TA