I still marvel every time I see a picture of where you found the chip -- amazed that such a small obscure thing could ever be located in such a huge massive unvisited area with all the myriad cracks and places that such an object could fall into.

The zoomed out picture showing the dead tree near the face makes that feeling even more acute.

CaT


If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)