It was all about getting the team together. We were six
strangers who had equal fire in them to climb the beast. It didn’t take us more
than couple of weeks to storm, norm and to be ready to perform. If I say that
we didn’t have ego clashes, misunderstanding, and anger management issues (and
even jealousy at times – may be my observations were off in this case), it
would be wrong. We had all this to deal with but each day we passed by really
made us a little family who started looking out for each other (and we still do).
The days were all about training ourselves harder. Each
weekend was an early morning meeting in Mount Lavinia beach to drain ourselves
for 4-5 hours just jogging in the sand. At points, we questioned what we were
doing. Those push ups in sand makes your wrists just break! Well I guess beyond
our questioning point, we knew that we all wanted one thing. We were all so
tough headed in that way to achieve our goal. So the weeks went through hiking
, cardio, more cardio and more knowledge sharing on the weather, gear, etc.
Our sleep spots were train stations or inside trains when we
had to save money for our trip without spending them in hotels. Life was
getting interesting by the day.
Finally we had our gear list together. We shopped. Late
night shopping. Some of us seemed so good at picking up, fitting them, take
pics and “social media” them. But poor souls like me had real trouble getting
distracted every minute and ending up buying unnecessary outfits. Thanks to the
favorite human beings around, they made sure I get what is needed in tact.
In fact my first shopping date was this! The longest ever.
We shopped for almost 10 hours. Dinner and then home J
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