with the world

End of August, 2018. A hike up Mount Sober-Bash. That's where I originally intended to meet a bear…

Mount Sober-Bash (a small mountain in Adygea)

Looking for a place to spend the night…

Found it!

And I spent the night… my backpack stayed below, while I climbed almost to the very top…

I didn't meet a bear on that hike. But what I understood there — at the moment of meeting him, I should be unarmed. I don't mean at all that if I were armed, say with a knife, I'd have any chance if he attacked. Not taking a weapon is nothing else — it's a gesture toward the beast, toward nature. By this I showed that I wasn't coming for war — that was exactly my mindset…

Vile creatures… incredibly annoying…

Beautiful landscape…

In the morning it turned slightly red, and the horizon the color of a ripe Sun…

Well, time to head out…

Water… just ran out…