Now, the eyes which had been fearful and desperate were hard. There was an air of command, assurance and determination about her, even when she smiled.
At home in Paris Thursday, Handke called the decision to give him the literature award courageous. He said the recognition gave him a strange kind of freedom.
Mountain habitats can be brutal but if you use your ingenuity, determination, resourcefulness and courage it is possible to make a life here at the roof of the world.