国家地理 一次翻越世界屋脊的历史性旅行(7)

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The next afternoon plainclothes agents escorted us onto the first flight out of Pakistan. Later it all would be declared a mix-up. A confusion of paperwork. I would be allowed back into Pakistan within days to resume my disrupted global walk. But on the night we landed in exile in a steaming Arabian city -- I still wore my filthy¹ snow pants -- I felt numb². Standing³ dazed in the noisy airport immigration queue, I stared at the backs of my sun-blackened hands. And I recalled dusk atop Irshad Pass.

次日下午，便衣特工护送我们登上了首班离开巴基斯坦的航班。随后这一切全都被宣布为一次乱了套的文书工作错误，又允许我几天之内返回巴基斯坦继续我被中断的全球徒步。但那天晚上我以流放者的身份降落在一个热气腾腾的阿拉伯城市时，我仍然穿着那肮脏的雪裤，感觉很麻木。睡眼惺忪地站在机场嘈杂的入境检查处的队伍里，我凝视着自己被太阳晒黑的手背，回忆起了伊尔沙德山口顶上的黄昏。

A pale disk of sun had slipped beneath a chink in the storm clouds. For perhaps two minutes everything gleamed with electrum light. Silver-gold shafts⁴ sprayed the Karakoram, igniting the tops of the snow pyramids that stretched in serried⁵ ranks to the edges of the world. It was the sort of light that burned away the loss in my heart. It was light through which I could imagine walking, with all my people, into the promise of new country.

一轮炽白的太阳从暴风云里的条裂缝里露出来。大约两分钟后，所有的东西都闪烁着银金矿般的光，似乎点燃了雪白的金字塔顶端，它们一排排紧密排列，一直延伸到世界尽头。那是一道烧掉我心中的失落的光芒。我可以想像，有了这道光芒，我的行程中虽然会有各式各样的人，也将轻松进入允诺的新国家。