To celebrate the Feast of Hilaire Belloc (July 16), I took a hike and almost died.  Story and photos here http://thwordinc.blogspot.com/2010/07/death-and-dirt.html
 
Belloc recounts in “The Path to Rome” his own providential escape from death while hiking in the Alps.
 
He did not die in the mountains, but as an old man, on the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.  Our Lady’s miraculous crown can also be seen in a photo at the above link.
 
Pray for Hilaire and for the revival of the clear thinking he embodied – as well as a return to a sane overview of history and an appreciation for good poetry, the kind Hilaire Belloc wrote so beautifully.