Thanks Ian, I think those photos of the champion alone in the mist say much more than our poor words can express.
Indeed he will travel faster through the heavens.

"In silence, solitude and stern surmise
His faith was tried and proved commensurate
With life and death.
The stone-blind eyes of Fate
Perpetually stared into his eyes,
Yet to the hazard of the enterprise
He brought his soul, expectant and elate,
And challenged, like a champion at the Gate,"

By George Cabot Lodge