Lukas Gruber, 29

Five in the morning at the valley station, one lamp and a notebook. I walk the line before the first cabin moves, palm on the cable, listening for the small hesitation near the third tower. At 7:10 the doors close and I already know what the weather will do.译清晨五点，山谷站只有一盏灯和我。第一班车厢出发前，我沿着索道走一遍，手掌贴着缆绳，听第三座塔架附近那一点迟疑。七点十分车门合上时，我今天会遇到什么样的天气，心里已经有数了。

Anton SkakunAlban MousaviBojan Petrovic

Gale warning all morning, so we take the coffee up top and stand behind the windbreak. A small tin of powder, water from a thermos still too hot to drink. Behind us the cabins swing on the rope like bells that never ring. Ten minutes, then back down.译一上午的大风预警，我们只好把咖啡端到山顶，躲在挡风板后面喝。一小罐咖啡粉，保温壶里的水烫得还不能入口。身后的车厢挂在缆绳上轻轻摇，像一排永远不会响的钟。十分钟，然后下山干活。

Camille LaurentYassine BelkacemJoana ManuelMarkus Weber

My grandmother knits one of these every autumn, thick brown wool, sleeves a little too long. By February it smells of grease whatever I do. I wear it under the jacket and she pretends not to see the burn holes. It is the warmest thing I own.译每年秋天，祖母都会织一件这样的毛衣，棕色粗线，袖子总是长一点。到了二月，无论我怎么洗，它都带着机油味。我把它穿在外套里面，她则假装没看见那些烫出来的小洞。这是我衣柜里最暖的一件。

江南雨Nusrat JahanJoana Manuel

In July the workshop half turns into a bicycle stand. A Dutch couple with a bent derailleur, a boy who dropped his chain, a woman who only wanted air in her tyres. I charge almost nothing. They tell me where they are going, and I go there in my head.译七月，车间有一半变成了修车摊。一对荷兰夫妇的后拨链器歪了，一个掉了链条的男孩，还有一位只想给轮胎打气的女士。我几乎不收钱。他们讲要去哪里，我就在脑子里跟着走一遍。

Nusrat JahanEnkh BatbayarLazar Stankovic

People say the mountain is silent. Not to me. There is the hum of the bullwheel, the clack where the sheave trains pass, the wind in the towers at three different pitches. When something is wrong I hear it before I see it. Quiet, in this job, is the bad sign.译人们说山上是安静的。对我来说不是。大轮的嗡鸣，索轮组经过时的咔哒声，风穿过塔架时三种不同的音高。出了问题，我总是先听见，再看见。干这行，忽然安静下来才是坏消息。

Diego FerrerEnkh BatbayarAisha RahmaniBojan Petrovic

Last week a boy refused to get in. His father was embarrassed; I wasn't. I showed him the grips, the closed doors, told him this cabin had been checked twice by me that morning and once by a machine. He rode. On the way down he waved at every tower.译上周有个男孩死活不肯上车。他父亲很难为情，我倒不觉得。我给他看抱索器，看关好的车门，告诉他这节车厢今早我查过两遍，机器又查过一遍。他上了车。下山时，他朝每一座塔架挥手。

Camille LaurentMatilda HargraveMbark Ould AhmedLuc BelangerSato Sakura

The clean blue shirt comes out maybe four times a year: a christening, a dinner, a colleague's wedding down in the valley. In it I look like a man who works in an office and reads the paper at breakfast. By ten I am outside anyway, staring at the Nordkette like a fool.译那件干净的蓝衬衫一年大概出场四次：洗礼、饭局、同事在山谷里的婚礼。穿上它，我像个坐办公室、早饭时读报纸的人。可到了十点，我还是站到门外，傻看着北链山。

Diego FerrerMatilda HargraveEmma CarterLazar Stankovic