Write a diary entry to your friend visiting the Mountain range tell her his experience
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I santosh yadav summitted Everest via the Nepal on May 19, 2018.
After cresting the Hillary Step I believed there was a +99% chance I would summit. I felt strong. The weather was holding. There was the small chance that the altitude would strike me down or that someone else might need my help.
Walking those last few steps to the true summit stick in my mind to this day. The snow crunched under my boots. I slid my Jamar up the fixed line as I had been doing for hours since departing Camp 4 at 9 pm. Ahead were the summit prayer flags and a small group celebrating their summit successes. An individual just ahead of me had carried up a statue of Buddha in a yellow and clear case and was assembling it.
As I reached the summit a great sense of accomplishment, self worth, and calm came over me. My immediate goal for the past 2 months of submitting Everest was nearly complete, although a long and dangerous descent was still ahead. I sat down, enjoyed the view, had a snack, and waited for the rest of my team to arrive. I filmed their arrival and you can watch it on my Everest You Tube video(summit scene starts about 6:30):
Upon arriving, there were hugs, high fives, summit photos, and rotating turns of standing on the very highest little snow mound.
Everest was also the culmination of years of apprenticeship and learning in the mountains. I felt like I had earned it through my time spent on Denali, Aconcagua (via the Polish Direct), Elbrus, Mt. Rainier (many times), and Cho-Oyu (8,201m, the world’s 6th tallest peak) among other smaller peaks. I also had separate technical mountaineering training and Wilderness First Responder training. I was also proud of the way I climbed Everest (e.g., with a team but not spoon fed, no guide or personal sherpa but with team sherpa support, oxygen (1.5L/min) above Camp 3).
The reality of climbing Everest didn’t sink in until I descended to Camp 2 and tried to call my parents via satellite phone. I got their voicemail saying, “Hi Mom and Dad, this is Vik and I’m back at Camp 2 after just having summited Mt. Everest”…I almost couldn’t finish saying the words as tears came to my eyes.
Of course, I didn’t really feel done and safe until I was back through the Khumbu ice fall and back in base camp.
The closest similar feeling I’ve had is with the birth of my children which was later, in 2020 and 2022.