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Tickets to NZ are booked. Campervan is in the process of being booked. I'm really excited now.
Going to Mordor in style. Nice.
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I have the autobiography by Edmund Hillary about climbing all the peaks and ridges of NZ as practice for Everest. I should read it to get the dwarf vibe. โฐ๏ธ Misty Mountain ensues ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEm0AjTbsac
Legend has it he practiced on Mt Cook, which is NZ highest mountain.
He used places in NZ which replicated different parts of the Everest climb. Same angle, rocks, distance, fissures, etc etc So he was only practicing like 20 metres at a time, just a very specific 20 m. That's so clever. ( I did read half the book ... lol )