Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
With his dives, Vescovo became the first person to have climbed Mount Everest and been to the bottom of the ocean, as well as having skied to both the North and South poles. In 2011, he completed the Seven Summits – climbing the highest peak on every continent – and has now been to the bottom of five of the world’s oceans.
