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Up Everest with Public Service Broadcasting to a trip down Death Valley with Sonic Youth, RR regular Fuel takes a walk on the wild side with songs from last week’s topic thread

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins put this plea in the poem Inversnaid. But humans are drawn to regions unknown and we climb Everest because it is there; Public Service Broadcasting providing a glistening tune for the summit of the world, highlighting our desire to explore and chart the world; to know its extent but not to know it profoundly.