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Solitude.  It is a word that can only be understood when practiced. Finding yourself atop a 15,000 summit with the rest of the Earth beneath you opens a train of thought which cannot be found elsewhere.  Zero Worries You, your relationships, your job, your problems -- are not even a speck on the billion-year timeline needed to create the apogee you just ascended. In the greater scheme, your entire life is nothing. You can see how nature spent a millennia forming the colossal summits in front of you, carving the vast granite walls you scale for gratification. Life's greatest difficulties and challenges evaporate into a mist of visual wonder. You, and everything you know will eventually die and this mountain will never know you existed.  Renewed Purpose Eventually the sun will set and the adrenaline will wear off. Well above timberline, there are no resources to sustain life. No water. Little oxygen. Nothing can grow and no mammal can survive for long. As you begin the descent the re