Rock and Ice - 1

By Christopher Zoukis Image courtesy fotofred.cz

The gravesite is high and cold and detached. No one knows its precise location anymore. For it’s been nigh onto forty years since they took him up there.

Back in 1974, his ashes were poured in an urn, which was placed in a backpack, which was strapped to a man’s back as the ascent was made. Next to the urn in the backpack was a hand drill, like a small rotating auger. When the drill was energized by human strength, razor sharp stainless steel b...