Mountain landscape

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vladimir vysotsky

This is not a plain - this is a different climate.
There are avalanches one after another,
And here in the rockfall rockfall roars.
And you can turn off the cliff to go around,-
But we choose the hard way,
Dangerous as a military trail.

Who has not been here, who has not risked -
He didnt test himself,
Even if he was grabbing stars from the sky below.
You wont find it down there, if you dont reach for it,
For all my happy life
A tenth of such beauty and wonder.

No scarlet roses and funeral ribbons,
And it doesnt look like a monument
The stone that peace gave you.
As an Eternal fire, sparkles day
Top of the emerald ice,
Which you never conquered.

And let them talk-Yes, let them talk!
But no-no one dies in vain,
This is better than vodka and colds.
Others will come, replacing comfort
At risk and exorbitant labor,-
You have not passed the route.

Sheer walls-well, dont yawn!
Dont count on luck here.
In the mountains, neither rock, nor ice, nor rock is unreliable.
We only hope for the strength of hands,
On the hands of a friend and a hammered hook,
And we pray that the insurance will not fail.

We cut down the steps. Not a step back!
And the tension makes my knees tremble,
And the heart is ready for the top to run out of the chest.
The whole world in the palm of your hand - you are happy and silent
And only a little jealous of those,
Others - who still have the top ahead of them.