Barefoot young monk in maroon robes pours tea from a metal flask for seated monks along a low table inside a dim monastery hall, with a gilded Buddha statue behind him.

Young Buddhist monk serving tea to his elders

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Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life.
Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
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