Recount Text Climbing to Heaven
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Climbing to Heaven
by Tom
My feet failed to find a suitable crevice and I fell. My hands burned red as I slid down the rough rope, and the coarse strip of leather wrapped around my waist, bit in hard. At the top of the cliff face, at the gateway to the Debra Damo Monastery, an Ethiopian Priest sat with his legs jammed up against either side of the rock-hewn entrance; wrapped around his muscular arms was the other end of the leather strap that had kept me from crashing down below. Further up still, in the piercing blue sky above the jagged mountain, vultures circled around the 6th century stone church.
A guide I was later to meet in Axum told me what had happened to one tourist when he had failed to tip the priest sufficiently: the holder of his particular safety strap had taken a somewhat less Christian attitude to his role as a saviour and had vengefully swung the rope from side to side – by the time that this particular pilgrim’s feet were back on solid ground, his clothes were as torn as rags and he was covered in blood.
The locals often wouldn’t bother with the leather safety strap at all, especially during the busy Orthodox festivals. As lines of men clambered up the same rope – both women and domestic animals are strictly forbidden from entering the monastery – the women would crowd around shouting up encouragement. If anybody got into trouble they would get very excited, as if they fell and died it meant they were never destined for heaven. On one occasion, a climber got his foot caught in the bag of the man below and seemed to slip – screaming women, down below, worked themselves up in to a frenzy, shouting for him to fall. Another time, one of the leather straps being used to lower down holy water tore apart, and the heavy plastic canister landed on the head of one of the women below, killing her stone dead. Nobody seemed very sure if she would go to heaven or not.
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