Quoting Lord George Curzon, 1899

As I sat daily in my room, and saw that range of snowy battlements uplifted against the sky […] I felt it should be the business of Englishmen, if of anybody, to reach the summi.

— Lord George Curzon, 1899, (via)

11:35am on June 26, 2024 from Albania.


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