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The hardest thing I’ve ever done
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Have you ever climbed a volcano, Reader? This is something us Broke Backpackers like to do whilst travelling. Hiking up steaming craters, pushing our bodies and minds and topping everything off with an epic sunrise up the top. Sometimes, though, these missions turn out to be much harder than initially planned, but they turn into epic stories nonetheless 😅
Taya took the challenge to tackle Indonesia's second-highest volcano, Mount Rinjani, climbing 3,726m through relentless elevation gain, steep rocky trails and some truly knee-destroying descents. The first day already had her questioning her life choices, but then there was the 1:45am wake-up, the freezing temperatures and the final push to the summit... and that was only half the battle. At one point, her body simply said fuck this and threw her into a little breakdown, but she put on her big girl pants and pushed through to the end. Was the hike brutal? Absolutely. Would she do it again anytime soon? Absolutely not. But it was still one of the most surreal experiences she ever had, and she wrote a pretty damn entertaining piece about it!
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