Mount Hua

As one of my favorite things to do on vacation is to hike, an article about the Mount Hua climb caught my eye. I’ve climbed Harney Peak, which is the highest point east of the Rocky Mountains, twice in my life. It seems sort of unlikely since I’m so terrified of heights that I literally need to sit down if I feel too threatened by a place I’m standing because of its height. It’s not that I’m faint or dizzy, it’s an instinct for my body to be lower to the ground so I can’t fall over the edge. So when seeing the climb some people take in China, I know how scary it is and I definitely see that it has the potential to be dangerous. The first picture they show is a person’s foot on 3 boards that look like they’re maybe 4 inches wide, each, at the most.  Then they say that if you were to fall, it’d be a mile long drop.

After that picture they show one of woman on a latter. This latter looks very old and probably fragile but people are still allowed to climb it. I can’t even imagine how id deal with the view if I looked down.

Another picture shows a man on the narrow boards. This view looks kind of scary, showing the only thing things keeping them from an awful drop. There is some kind of rope, a chain, and the boards.

From the angle of this hike up the side of the mountain, it looks like a long, and very difficult climb.

This picture of locks is just one of the places couples stop to show their commitment in their relationship. Closing the lock around places like this and then throwing the key off the side of the mountain, they show their eternal love for each other.

Seeing these pictures gave me some perspective, I’ve been to cave dwellings that Indians used to live in, I’ve been to the Grand Canyon, Hiked Harney Peak, and so many other significant places with heights and views like the ones on Mount Hua but Mount Hua is definitely and respectively a place that is way too dangerous for my liking but would be so awesome to climb.