I’ve left my footsteps on the mountain
It was just a split second of falling light. It’s around 3 a.m. on the summit of Mt. Talamitam and we’re still outside our tents, staring at the darkness of the night. Stars did not elude us and we were blessed with an endless sea of small twinkling lights above us. This time, the city lights below us are far too low to outshine the stars that seemed to hover near us. As we lie down in the open air, you can almost feel that you’re part of that piece of universe. In the stillness of the night, we’re between the earth and the sky, floating among the clouds and witnessing the death of a star…and another…and another. We’ve witnessed quite a number of falling stars that night.
We wanted to climb two mountains so we decided that the best possible way to do it in just three days is to [...]
