Cloud Dancing - Flinders Island
Originally published in Outback magazineExcerpt
It’s the rule of thirds,” Matt Griffiths declares, stooping under branches the colour of bleached bones on the stony flanks of Mt Strzelecki.
“It’s an old mountaineering saying that two-thirds of all accidents happen on descent,” he warns, “but I always think that the last third of the mountain takes two-thirds of the effort.”
Comfort has slipped away in an infinite whiteness whipping through trees scrawled tightly around him …