Crevasses under the snow, under a sea of stars. Your first night walking on a glacier, you will know what it means to be free. Free but not fool. Hence the taut rope.
The rope party
Rope party: describes a group of people joined by a mountain or climbing rope and thus secured against falling. I fall, you fall. Stand by me. Trust me. There is always a kind of magic in this exercise. You spend a day with someone, and a rope between both of you. It is not about friendship like many may think, it is maybe about being reliable, and certainly about staying alive in this world of snow, ice, rock and verticality.