Imagine you've spent the day toiling up hills, regretting every choice that led here. You're more tired and sore than you've ever been. When you finally reach the pass and come out in the open the mountain is towering over you. Glaciers pour melt water down thousand foot cliffs. Alpine meadows in red and gold. The beauty and solitude is enough your heart aches.
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