"Whats that, you would like to learn how to read a map. Do parents not teach their kids simple survival skills anymore."
"Yeah yeah, I know that you have it on your phones. What if you lose service, or it dies, or is damaged, or the litteral thousand other things that could happen to it."
"Oh very well, I gess I can't expect you to go and climb mountians without knowing it how to read maps. Get lost or turned around up there and you are dead. If you get luckey maybe someone finds your body. Probably not though!"
"It is easy if you just know where the sun is and what time it is. The sun travels East to West. Point your left hand at West and your right at East, it will spell WE and you will be facing North. Always know where North is and you should be able to figure out the rest with trial and error."
"I sugest practicing at the park first. This actually reminds me of my first time on Everist and getting caught in a storm on our way down from one of our camps."
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The feeling of standing on top of the world can't simply be described to someone that has never experienced it. The only thing that I can say that comes close is Grandness. It is a grand feeling that can not easly be matched. You feel towering and Big.
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Don't you froget that the mountian is dangerious just because you feel as if you could lift it in the moment though if I had to give you any advice it would be to laugh. Laugh at the world and at all the small problems and the small people that will never even dare to dream. Laugh because you will have proven that you could do anything and no one could ever take that away from you. You will have stood on top of the largest mountian in the entire world and laughed in the face of its hight.
Now on your way down becareful not to get stuck in a storm like I did. It raged, and that is the right way of describing it, raged for hours where we had to bunker down to stop the wind from tossing us off the face of the mountian that we had just conqured. I crawled in a crevice and waited it out holding on to the friend that I had fornd in the mountian. It was great and fantastic. There just is not words to describe how it felt.
After that I promised myself that I would go up it at least once a decade until I was dead or bound to a chair for the rest of my days. That trip will be coming up soon. I will challenge that old beast one last time and conquer it or fall before it. The oldest of you if you should care to join me should go and ask your parents if you can. I would welcome the company and help for the trip.
I don't think I have the strength to do it on my own. 6 times I have gone up it and this will be my seventh and final time.