and i spent it climbing stairs with lihui.
as i sit my sore thighs down, i realised how ludicrous a way this is to spend a perfectly fine opening to the weekend. how painful an idea, and how absurd to see it through.
yet i can’t think of many things comparable to the perspiration-tainted smugness that swells up when we sit at the basketball court post-stairs.
perhaps there are indeed only two kinds of people in this world – those are climb stairs and those who don’t.
With the team, Esther went on to climb and summit mountains in far-flung corners of the world, including Mt Aylmer (2,699m) in New Zealand; Mera Peak (6,476m) in Nepal; Er Feng (5,276m) in China; Mustagh Ata (7,546m) in Central Asia, and Mt Everest (8,850m) in Nepal.