Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time.

Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.

The rescue team reached within an hour's walking distance to the site of the base camp but did not proceed to the site Monday. They said the rescue operation failed to find any trace of the climbers or their equipment.