翻译：看闲书认闲字
好了，让我们开始把 Okay, here we go then.
当然，我很擅长这个 Yeah. No, I will be good with this.
来吧，我准备好了 Okay. I'm ready. 很好，谢谢你 Right. Thank you.
献给那些心醉于高山的人 To those who are enthralled by mountains.
他们是超越一切争端的奇迹 They're wonders beyond all disputes.
献给那些不喜欢高山的人 To those who are not.
他们总是有一种狂热 They are always a kind of madness.
是什么奇怪的力量吸引着我们向上？ What is this strange force that draws us upwards?
这首歌 This siren song... 的高潮 Of the summit.
在三个世纪之前 Only three centuries ago
登山还被认为是种愚蠢的行为 Setting up to climb a mountain would have been considered an act of lunacy.
很少有人会认为野外的风景有什么吸引力 The idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction.
高山是危险之地，而非美丽之地。 Mountains were places of peril, not beauty.
一个应该避开而非追寻的上层世界 An upper world to be shunned, not sought out.
而今，高山仿佛施了魔咒 How then have mountains now come to hold a spellbound.
吸引着我们归于它的统治之下 Drawing us into their dominion.
常常是以我们的生命为代价 Often at the cost of our lives.
因为我们攀登的高山不仅仅是由岩石和冰雪组成 Because the mountains we climb are not made only of rock and ice
还有梦想 But also dreams... 渴望 And desire.
我们攀登的高山 The mountains we climb
也是我们的灵魂之峰 Are mountains of the mind.
对人类而言，高山一度被认为是神圣的家园 To humans high mountains were once considered the home of either the holy
也是充满敌意的世界 Or the hostile.
二者之一，没有二者之间There was nothing in between.
恭敬的围绕在山脚，永远不要进入高山 Around to be revered from below but never entered.
如果可能的话，沿着山骊绕着山走，但是不要尝试着向上 Go around mountains if necessary, along their flanks but not up them.
因为只有众神和怪物才住在高处 For only gods and monsters dwelt at heights.
上面世界的神圣景色让我们为之献身 The upper world was a sacred landscape to which we directed our devotion
和我们的敬畏 And our rituals of awe.
但总是从安全的距离 But always from the safe distance.
日常生活带给我们无数的苦难和危险 Daily life brought ample hardship and danger.
没有必要再去寻找更多 There was no need to seek out more.
尽管巨龙和神灵已经渐渐被飞机毁掉了 Gradually though the dragons and divinities were put to flight 我们对高山的态度也发生了神奇的改变 and our feelings toward mountains underwent an astonishing change.
魅力取代了恐惧 Fascination replaced trepidation.
探险代替了敬畏 Adventure replaced reverence.
随着城市的发展，我们与大自然隔绝了 As cities grew and we insulated ourselves away from nature
但是高山呼唤着我们 The mountains called us back.
高山的魔力越来越大 The magic of mountains strengthened
它们令人狂热的美丽 Their fierce beauty,
它们具有魔力的壮美 Their power to enchant,
它们的挑战 Their challenge
我们开始去寻找令人生畏和无法被控制的地方 We went in search of places that were intimidating and uncontrollable.
愉快与恐惧混合在一起鼓励着我们 That inspired in us the heady blend of pleasure and terror.
我们称之为顶点 Which we came to call the sublime.
为了寻找顶点，我们不断的向上 This search for the sublime do us outwards and upwards.
伟大的世界之巅开始于想象的力量 The great peeks of the world begin to exert a force upon the imagination.
这首充满诱惑的歌很容易被听到 A siren song that was easy to hear.
难以拒绝 Hard to resist.
有时候，甚至是致命的 And sometimes... fatal.
但是在死亡的传奇让高山的符咒广为传扬 But legends of death in high places spread the spell of the mountains wider still.
慢慢的，地图上的空白被逐渐填满 Slowly the blank spaces on the maps were filled in.
宏伟的目标是给空中世界的每一个点都定位、命名 The imperial aim was to grid, girdle and name the upper world.
把它和它的臣民带到已知的世界 To bring it and it's peoples within the realm of the known and the owned.
用熟知代替神秘 To replace mystery - with mastery.
这是人们最大的谜团 And the greatest mystery of them all...
珠穆朗玛 Everest.
人们开始要消灭这迷雾 And so began the campaign to vanquish it.
人们蜂拥而至 Everest was placed under siege.
直到珠穆朗玛被征服 Until at last it succumbed.
这是登山运动进入大众视野的时刻 This was the moment that mountaineering as adventure entered the popular imagination.
我们的迷恋变成了痴迷 Our fascination became an obsession.
我们对高山的需要越来越多 Now our need for mountains runs deep and wide.
对于大多数人的大部分时间而言，周围的环境 For most of us exist for most of the time in environments 是可控的 that are humanly arranged and controlled.
但高山是狂野和不服从管理的 But mountains are wild and ungovernable.
这就是高山危险的来源 This is the source of their danger
也是高山诱惑的根源 And also the source of their allure.
对未知的渴望让我们不断前行 And so a longing for the unknown that cans us onwards
如同洞穴的回声 Like echos cave
未知会用您说的任何声音回应你 The unknown will answer back with whatever you call into it.
进入险峰如同跨过一条边界 To travel to the high peaks is to cross a threshold
进入了一个时间扭曲的空间 Into a space where time warps... 和时间弯曲的世界 And bends.
感官被触目惊心的放大 And sensations are thrillingly amplified.
岩石和冰雪对心灵的触动远比对手的触摸要温柔 Stone and ice though are far less gentle to the hand's touch than to the mind's eye.
地球上的高山经常变得更冷酷 The mountains of the Earth have often turned out to be more resistant,
更致命 More fatally real
远超过我们对山的想象 Than the mountains we imagine.
这些都是险峻的岩石和破碎的冰雪造成的 These are matters of hard sharp rock and driving ice.
冰冷的尸骨 A bone deep cold.
没有什么完美的 Nothing ideal.
伤痛和呕吐 Injury and nausea.
无限的恐惧 Fizzing fear.
病痛和眩晕 Of stomach turning vertigo.
但是，它们也是难以言述的美丽所在 But... They're also places of unspeakable beauty.
于是山峰呼唤着我们 And so the peaks summon us still.
磨练着我们的存在 Sharpening our sense of being.
把生命放在刀锋之上 Setting life on a knife edge.
因为危险可以承载无边的快乐 For danger can hold terrible joys.
无与伦比的壮美 Dreadful splendors.
今天，高山被认为是自然界最精致的景观之一 Today mountains are considered among nature's most exquisite features.
不再因为它们千奇百怪的外形扰乱了我们的心绪 No longer due to their chaotic forms upsetting the spirit level of our minds.
今天，每年数百万人以他们不同寻常的朝圣之旅走向高山 Now we migrate to them in our millions each year pursuing our strange pilgrimages.
一种全新的对高山的态度占据了主导地位 A very modern mountain worship has taken hold.
这种态度要求要改变高山 A worship that requires the modification of the mountains.
管理风险 And the management of their risks.
而且已经开始这样做了 And in doing so
我们渐渐忘了它的力量 We have come to forget something of their power.
我们承担了多么古怪的牺牲 What odd devotions we undertake.
我们上演了如此古怪的表演 What curious performances we put on.
把高山作为我们的舞台 With the mountains as our theater.
对一些人来说，冒险的召唤是无法抗拒的 To certain people the call to adventure is irresistible.
当一些人每天的生活变得越来越平静，越来越舒适 As everyday life has become safer and more comfortable for some.
我们开始在别处寻找危险 We've begun to seek out danger elsewhere.
我们追寻危险 We court danger.
我们为之付出代价 We pay for it.
冒险成为我们的回报 Risk has become its own reward.
就在悬崖边缘的高度 At height you can be taken right to the brink.
你从未如此清晰的感受到生命，因为你知道，任何时候 For you never feel so alive knowing that at any minute... 你都有可能死去 You could die.
所以我们到高山上冒险 So up to the mountains we go in headlong pursuit of peril.
或者去任何一个可以让我们看清自己的地方 Or a testing ground on which the self can best be illuminated.
今天的冒险家在欲望的驱使下达到别人从未触及的地方 Today's adventurers are driven by the lust to reach somewhere no-one has reached before.
去做从未有人完成的事情 And to do something no-one has done before.
我们的愿望让我们更疯狂 Our wish to be first induces in us forms of insanity.
更有魅力 And forms of grace.
有时候，冒险就像是对老鼠的恐惧 Adventurers sometimes liken fear to a rat.
当你冒险的时候，你就是在用恐惧饲养老鼠 When you take risks you feed the rat with fear.
但是每次你喂的时候，恐惧会越来越大 But each time you feed that fear it grows fatter.
你不得不用更多的恐惧来满足它 So then you must feed it more fear to sate it.
一次又一次 And yet more again and then still more.
直到疯狂 Until a madness bites.
这事怎么发生的？ How has it come to this?
高山是高风险高收益的赌博游戏的舞台 The mountains as a stage set for a pumped-up poker game of high stakes and high returns.
所有的一切都是由品牌和在线视频驱动的 All driven by big brands and online views.
许多在山顶往来的人，半是爱上了自己 Many who traveled among the tops are half in love with themselves
半是爱上了遗忘 And half in love with oblivion.
而今，狂热的高潮在珠穆朗玛峰 Today's mountain mania culminates on Everest.
为了测试极限 Where the wish to test one's limits
或者为了与自己的恶魔战斗，这里每年吸引了成千的人 Or to battle one's demons draws thousands of people to the peak each year.
尝试征服珠穆朗玛让普通人暂时的变得不凡 Attempting Everest offers a way for the ordinary person to be briefly extraordinary.
但是挑战的性质在很多方面发生了变化 But the nature of the challenge has in many ways changed.
这不再是登山 This isn't climbing anymore.
而是排队 It's queuing.
这也不再是探索 This isn't exploration. 而是人流控制 It's crowd control.
这是现代攀登工业 This is the modern industry of ascent.
这种模式下，风险最小的人往往最容易承担风险 In which the risks are often taken most by those who have least.
但是高山不会屈从于我们的命令 But mountains exceed our command.
它们逃脱了我们的控制 They slip our grip.
落在后面的人是没有荣耀的 And there is no glory for those who are left behind.
高山不仅仅是一个挑战 Mountains are so much more than a challenge... 也是一个要去战胜的对手 Or an adversary to be overcome.
高山轻松打败了人类的本能 For mountains humble the human instinct.
揭示了我们的渺小 And reveal our insignificance.
在他们存在的如此长久的时间中，人类并不存在 They live in deep time. In a way that we do not.
高山之后和高山之上铺展开的恒古宇宙是我们所无法领会的 Behind and beyond the mountains stretch eons too fast for us to comprehend.
在我们梦到这里之前，它们就已经屹立在此 They were here long before we were even dreamed of.
它们看着我们到来 They watched us arrive.
它们也将看着我们离去 They will watch us leave.
火的出现 Born of fire.
力量的诞生 Born of force.
山脉隆起 Mountains move.
世世代代，它们上升下降 Over epochs they rise and fall.
这是地球的乐章 This is the symphony of the Earth.
隆起和侵蚀的节拍造就了没有水的波浪 A rhythm of uplift and erosion that makes not waves of water... 而是岩石的浪潮 But waves of stone.
从这岩石的波浪中流淌出生命 And from these waves of stone flows life.
身处高山之中，可以激发 Being in the mountains can ignite our astonishment 我们对这世界上最简单事物的惊奇我们对这世界上最简单事物的惊奇at the simplest transactions of the living world.
每个在山中的人都知道，高山对所有人都一视同仁 Anyone who has been among mountains knows their indifference.
也都曾短暂地感受到世界对我们的冷漠 Has felt a brief blazing sense of the world's disinterest in us.
往小了说 In small measures... 这种感受让人兴奋 This feeling exhilarates.
从大了讲...使人崩溃 In full form... It annihilates.
从险峰回到地面 Coming back to Earth from the high peaks
你会觉得自己是个陌生人 You can feel like a stranger.
承载着无法言表的 Bearing experiences that are beyond expression... 也无法用金钱衡量的体验 And beyond price.
时光流逝，在身后留下一片阴影 Time has flown over you but left a shadow behind.
高山不求我们的爱 Mountains don't seek our love... 也不求我们的死亡Or seek our deaths.
它们一无所求 They want nothing from us.
然而，它们改变了我们看待自己的方式 And yet... They shift the way we see ourselves.
它们影响着我们的精神 They weather our spirits.
挑战我们的傲慢 Challenge our arrogance.
恢复我们的奇迹 Restore our wonder.
比以往任何时候 More than ever... 我们需要它们的野性 We need their wildness.