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Everest
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 Hard day today, waking up late (6:30), going to the bakery, and eating cinnamon rolls with hot chocolate. I don’t know if I can take much more. Anyways, we finished off the morning by using the computer, getting mad at the computer, fixing the computer, then a nice stroll up the hillside above town. Up the trail, around the corner, the true Himalayan giants lie, glistening in the sunlight. Giant spires of rock and ice pierce up through the snow, up into the clouds. Winds are whipping the snows of Everest in huge drifts, lying al the way to the steep faces and peak of Lhotse. Across the valley lies Ama Dablam. Bright and mysterious, the steep faces wink with sunlight, shining like a giant fang, thrust through the earth. This is when the reality hit me hard. That I am actually trekking through the Himalaya, to Mount Everest. All through places I have only read about, dreamt about. Those places seemed so far off, around the world, hidden by dark mists. Now I am here, experiencing the books, living my dream.
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