Climbing A Mountain Made Me Realize What Life Is All About

Peter Burns
Nov 4 · 9 min read
Mt. Kilimanjaro

About 5 years ago, I never imagined myself climbing a mountain. It was tough, dangerous, and took a lot of time and effort. Being a city boy, most of my activities were tied to the hustle and bustle of noisy agglomerations of buildings, and hordes of people with zombie-like faces going about their business, not paying attention to the thousands of other people surrounding them. Nature was…

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Peter blogs at Renaissance Man Journal (http://gainweightjournal.com/). He is extremely curious and wants to know how everything works.

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