After days spent high on the route
she carries down sanitary pads
to burn on a base-camp fire.
The circle of men falls silent.
Here in the Karakoram –
Black Gravel in Turkic –
she walks off their maps
into whiteness
After days spent high on the route
she carries down sanitary pads
to burn on a base-camp fire.
The circle of men falls silent.
Here in the Karakoram –
Black Gravel in Turkic –
she walks off their maps
into whiteness