first post

unknown territory here...so I took the name of this blog from a book by Werner Herzog called "Of Walking In Ice". Haven't actually read the book, nor do I own it....really, I had the name written down on a scrap of paper...looking for it, in a way. I'm a big fan of Herzog's movies though..."The White Diamond", amongst many, stands out. It's about an inventor making and testing a flying machine that would allow film makers and others to study the top canopy of rain forests, and similar places, with the least amount of intrusiveness; a light-weight, not so silent, hovering machine. Of course the film detours into the lives of the people around the making of the film, long shots of nature and animals, some of which are edited into the film in a way that draw comparisons to the people in the film; all of which, may elude to what Herzog refers to as "ecstatic truth" (?)