Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not
exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces
the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality. In this
novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to
search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden,
peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain
represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic
allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can
know and conquer one's own reality.