“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” -Ed Viesturs We had reached the top of Gros Piton. Despite my aching muscles and throbbing knees it was only sheer determination that willed me to the top of that rocky mass. Exhausted but exhilarated, I perched myself on the top rocks. I didn’t have […]
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Conquering Gros Piton
“I found my heart upon a mountain I did not know I could climb, and I wonder how many other pieces of myself are secreted away in places I judge I cannot go.” Laurel Bleadon Maffei When I was told on a recent family vacation to the Caribbean that we had arrangements to spend the […]
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