“Yesterday, I woke up at 1:30 a.m. to one hundred people banging around the dorm getting ready. Okay, it was probably only twenty or thirty, but it sounded like a hundred.
At 2 a.m., I gave up on sleeping and went to “supper,” which consisted of breakfast.
At 3 a.m., a long line of headlamps scaled the mountain in the dark for 2.7 kilometers, up, up, up to the summit, 4,095 meters high. At times, we were walking on a ledge about 6 inches wide and holding onto a rope with two hands, pulling ourselves along. (It’s safe! Only a few people die a year.)
We reached the summit just as the very first rays of sun peeked over the mountains. It was breathtaking…and freezing! By the time I reached the top, I was wearing three layers of pants, four layers on top, mittens and a stocking cap.”
–August 23, 2013
Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge verse for this week:
Let’s Go Fly a Kite
With tuppence for paper and strings, You can have your own set of wings, With your feet on the ground, You’re a bird in a flight, With your fist holding tight, To the string of your kite. Oh, oh, oh! Let’s go fly a kite, Up to the highest height! Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring, Up through the atmosphere, Up where the air is clear, Oh, let’s go fly a kite!
You most assuredly have height and atmosphere. Marvelous photos for this week’s song. 🙂
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Wow – breathtaking! ❤
Diana xo
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Awesome photo’s and I’ll bet an awesome experience!
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It was so crazy! I want to do a longer post on it with some other funnier, more disturbing pictures. However, it didn’t seem appropriate for the photo challenge today. Also, I’m afraid I’m getting a certain reputation. You know, for worms and graveyards and gore.
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Ha! I never thought of you as a worms and graveyard blogger. I’d love to see more pics. 😉
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You adventurer, Wormy. A marvelous post, indeed.
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I haven’t had a
goodBIG adventure in so long, it’s killing me.LikeLike
I take it driving two-thirds of the way across the country in four hours with no sleep and skipping every White Castle is neither good nor big, Wormy?
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It’s a good adventure, but not a BIG adventure. It’s an ordinary, once-a-year adventure. Good adventures happen everyday, maybe even in your living room. Big adventures generally take some time and maybe even a little planning. A BIG adventure is putting all of your worldly possessions in a storage unit and backpacking through Malaysia for a month. We were supposed to go to Iran last year, but as of yet, we haven’t been able to get our visas.
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You two are adventurists of magnitude, Wormy. 🙂
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