Double Espresso

"The things of the mountain are like the rest of life — observed from too great a distance, they grow blurry, and we forget their very heart."

So he hoists himself up there, often, always by choice, to savor the promises of a passion born in the ardent hours of childhood, a path he has never lost his way along. And when he returns, he knows without shame how precious it was, for up there, one encounters everything that makes up life — sorrows, laughter, anger, joys, and fears too.

Cédric Sapin-Defour has chosen writing for the boldness and freedom it offers in recounting these interludes. Reality meets poetry, words brush up against the soul, and we find ourselves swept away into a familiar territory whose repetition we savor when it works in the name of the common good: the world of the heights."

• All that makes life, beyond the mountains, all that makes life and sheds a little light on it.