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beyourselfchulanmaria · 26 days

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你先通過我的城市-高雄柴山的挑戰之後我就向你推薦和建議其他台灣的山脈 😏

After you pass the challenge of my city - Kaohsiung Shoushan first, I will suggest other mountains in Taiwan to you ha! 🤭😎

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在這9年間我也常去柴山但每當我經過"A線攻頂"的入口，我都假裝我腿瘸了、眼睛瞎了或是我發燒了哈哈哈，再也不想去挑戰了!

In the past 9 years, I have often gone to Shoushan, but every time I passed the entrance of "Line A to the Top", I pretended that I was lame, blind, or had a fever, hahaha, and never wanted to challenge it again!

(It's very true I'm not joking. unless if I have a boyfriend at mountaintop there and he earn a gold crown then I'll go to celebrate. lol) ℒan ~*

👇貝殼化石 fossilized shells & 👆 Monkey poo poo & land art :)))

Look! The door locked lol So no matter in the end our legs no longer feel like our own, we still have to climb the wall in order to get home/fouling was necessary at the time, and we lose energy to walk to another exit. (The End.) 🙏 Peace! 😊

#chu lan #can't be called hiking but almost dying lol #hiking? no it's real mountain climbing #proud you're alive finally #my memories #朱蘭皮藝 #fine craft artist #leather art artist #beautiful life #柴山 (壽山/猴子山)#A線攻頂記 #shoushan #kaohsiung/taiwan

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anouri · 2 years

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2 and 15

(ask game!)

2. what languages do you speak?

technically my two native languages are english & darija (moroccan arabic), but i lost speaking fluency in darija when i went to elementary school as a kid and started speaking exclusively in english- so i'm receptively fluent in darija (i can understand what is said to me, but i have trouble speaking it).

i also know enough french to get me through a week in montréal about three years ago but i'm definitely far from fluent lmao

15. a story of a teenage wild night?

i had a horribly boring teenage life for a variety of reasons (imagine the Black Brothers experience and you won't be too far off) so i can share a wild story from my adult life?

this question made me forget every single thing i've ever done in my life

oh this is definitely not what the question meant, but my friends and i almost died on a mountain whilst hiking! we were hiking up the highest mountain in the northeastern united states, and accidentally got off path on the rock scramble. and if you don't know what rock scrambling is, it's basically one step away from rock climbing lol. and so it started snowing, so we lost track of the trail, and then it got dark and we were like well, fuck! and then we started freaking the fuck out because we couldn't find a way down! and the thing about rock scrambling is that oftentimes you are only supposed to go up them, and then take another way down, but there was no way we were going to manage that. so then i, naturally, started having a panic attack and literally dissociated, and then one of my other friends (who is absolutely fearless, god bless her) went out to try her best to find a path, whilst the rest of us simply tried to survive in the fucking freezing cold. we were freezing our asses off because we thought we'd be back to the car by sundown at around 45F (7C) but since it got dark it was around 20F or less (-7C). so i genuinely don't remember most of it because my brain is lovely and at least would let me not realize i was dying if i had died (thank you dissociative disorder, ily 😌).

apparently my friends called 911 at some point because we were all like there is no way we are getting down a rock scramble in this weather in the darkness-- and 911 was basically like "you're going to have to get down, or you're shit out of luck, because we can't get a helicopter to you until morning". so. (i only vaguely remember this lol)

anyway, i think i finally came back into the world when my friend was trying to force me to stand up once she had found a semblance of a trail (aka she found footsteps, but she didn't know if they were ours or someone else's) and i was struggling because a) i was still having a panic attack and b) my muscles were cramping because i had been curled up in a ball for hours fully dissociated LMAO. my friend that had found the trail actually fell into a hole and nearly got stuck, but she somehow made it out because she is god or something

so yeah, this 'trail' that she found was actually not a trail, it was TREE ROOTS that were SUSPENDED OVER GAPS OF BOULDERS ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN, and if the tree roots have snapped we would have fallen FOUR THOUSAND FEET TO THE GROUND. so. yeah. luckily the tree roots didn't snap 😌😌😌

at one point there was a giant jump we all had to make, and i am a small person ok?? like 5'2? the rest of my friends are all taller than me, so one of my friends had to grab my arm and help me make the jump i have never feared for my life more in my life i thank god every day that he was willing to pull me in snowy conditions when i was far from stable and my instabilty could've caused him to fall

lol anywho i genuinely think that's the longest panic attack i've ever had in my life, i don't remember most of it but i'm pretty sure it lasted hours. at one point my poor friend (after hours of trying to calm me down... also this is the same one that had to pull me over the jump) looked at me dead in the eye and was like "PLEASE ANOURI I CAN'T SEE YOU CRYING ANYMORE OR I DON'T THINK I WILL BE ABLE TO SURVIVE THIS" and that shut me up real fast lmao

god, there's so much more. but we eventually got down to solid land and a proper trail that wasn't a rock scramble, and at this point i fully became sentient and conscious of my existence, and the tables had turned-- one of my friends who had been very lucid & helpful whilst getting down the difficult part started hallucinating 😭😭 probably from cold and also dehydration etc etc

anyway i will stop there. the hike was supposed to end at like 6pm, we made it back to the car somewhere around 3-5am. so.

yeah. i am never hiking that trail again i don't care if someone paid me a million dollars

#oh god that was so long #i had to force myself to stop that night was INSANE #it's kind of funny in retrospect #anouri answers asks #a decomposing dump of my thoughts #ask game

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beyourselfchulanmaria · 26 days

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【Part 1】

你先通過我的城市-高雄柴山的挑戰之後我就向你推薦和建議其他台灣的山脈 After you pass the challenge of my city - Kaohsiung Shoushan first, I will suggest other mountains in Taiwan to you ha!

👆 我這張封面頭像的故事背景就是我住的城市有一座人盡皆知、依山傍海並且滿是台灣猿猴的"柴山"，山上有很多爬山的路線，退休老人當然都選比較容易健行的路線，而我們卻挑戰一條俗稱"A線攻頂"。(The story background of my cover photo is that the city where I live has a well-known "Shoushan／Monkey Mountain", which is surrounded by mountains and seas and there's full of Taiwanese apes. There are many climbing routes on the mountain, and retired elders of course choose the easier ones to hike. route, but we challenged a route commonly known as "A line to the top" The path very less people go even young guys under the sun heat day.) ～

We chose a way It's really terrible difficulty climbing path to top of mountain, especially way to back I still remember clearly want me die at the time. lol and look my face… XD I was serious thinking & praying secretly : Jesus, Did I use my two legs get down to moutain or could you give me wings flying but rather a ball rolling down straight to the hospital better?! You know that I even almost cry to please : Oh No!

柴山 (Shoushan, Kaohsiung/Taiwan) - 入口位於中山大學文學院旁 / A線攻頂記 ◠‿◠ in 2015, April. 28. (It was 9 years ago. Time flies! lol)

Since a story He was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. once He said: "The key is not just to climb to reach the summit of Everest, it should be able to secure more important down." And as people said that " It's not ending on the hilltop, Must be returned safely to be successful. If you want to mountain climbing, be sure to leave enough time to come back. " then climbed on mountain, though laborious, but not prone to danger. If down the mountain, It's easily slip down. so have to grasp the balance. And if the speed is too fast, legs and feet will be sore and trembling. Accidentally, it became a free fall and fell directly down the mountain. In addition, the metaphor ~~~ "When a person's social status will improve honored, It's easy for their life, but if It became lower status, it felt embarrassed and sad days. Must be learn and To face it also." ...much regard.

距今約70年前第一個登上珠穆朗瑪峰的紐西蘭的登山家和探險家艾德蒙·希拉里曾經說過：「攀登珠峰的關鍵並不只是登上頂峰，應該是能夠安全下山更為重要。」以及「登山不是登頂就結束了，還得安全返回才算成功。如果要登山的話，一定要留夠回來的時間。」意指上山雖費力但不容易發生危險，下山雖省力卻容易失足。下山時重力重心是向下，自身作用力也是向下，所以要確實掌握住平衡，弄不好前衝力過大，會發生危險。以及速度如果太快，腿腳會發酸並且發抖。一不小心變成為自由落體直接滑落山下。另外，比喻~~~「當一個人的社會地位提高時感到榮耀，日子容易過，但若是地位降級時感到丟臉，日子難過。」

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