day 3: Summit!

Endorphins are known as happiness hormones! 

But do some of them also help to dampen pain?

I can not imagine and describe the feeling after 7:40 hours running and walking all the way up from 5200m at Refugio Atacama to 6893m!

The Ojos del Salado is known, to be a technical very easy mountain, like the Hochlantsch in Styria!

In deed, to walk up this mountain you have just to do two things: 

First, at this height you have to focus all your feelings, emotions, all the pain, all your hope, your hate, your self-doubt, your luck, all the power off your legs, the strength of your torso your shoulders and arms just on your next step! 

After that, you just have to get again enough oxygen in your lungs, let come down your heart rate to a acceptable level and start mentally and physically preparing for the next one!

Now you are ready to walk up the last 300m in altitude...