THE CLIMBER
GONDO LAKE ARUM #1

Fourteen climbers began the journey down the path, carrying a load of each no less than 15 kg. Steady in their steps, and unyielding in the face of all the weather.

Three hours have they walked with flat tracks sometimes uphill, now they face a path that is not easy. The steep cliffs that were sometimes covered in fog and rain now come to head against them.

The steep walls blocked us, the stone slippery because it was washed away by rain. Arya and Elya alternately crept up to the court above to install a fixed rope or fix rope so that other colleagues can ride with the ascender. Carriel-carrriel they pulled up with a small pulley hooked in a rock crevice with a cliff nail.

Such a thrilling ride colored their climb for up to two hours ahead. Not only faced with very cold air temperatures, sometimes they also found the rest of the animal waste in the crevices of the cliffs they passed.

They only realized they had passed through a 75-meter-high wall with a steepness of 80-90 degrees. Fatigue and cold start to haunt them.

But their spirits reverberated when they saw a land from behind the fog. Tracing the western ridge cliffs of the gondo arum valley, they pass through two small ravines with carnantels and carabiners.

At 12:30 WNT they managed to set foot on a plain. The fragrant aroma of hermitage welcomed their arrival.

"This and I say GONDO ARUM VALLEY, actually the terrain is not too difficult even tend to be flat to get to the limits of Snowpeak mountain vegetation, but we always fail to make a path, but we always fail to make a path, and also this valley often makes us get lost twirling around in one place" said Jack explained.

"Yes and even we once only circled a lake that is very wide and in the middle there is a hut that stands under a very large tree" said one climber.

"Lake Gondo Arum." muttered Nandhita but was heard by all who were there.

"You know that lake..?" ask a surprised climber.

"Yes..!! do you remember the way there..?" ask Nandhita sure.

"Pair the tent here, we take a short break here" said Arya firmly.

All the climbers obeyed Arya's orders, they opened the carriel and took out the tent and put it up. Two tents and a large tent had been successfully set up.

"Change your clothes first with dry and warm, the weather here is very cold is not good to wear wet clothes" said Arya, after she had changed clothes herself.

Again without orders twice they obey Arya. It only took a few minutes for them to change clothes and regroup with Arya in the biggest tent.

"Jack you still memorize the path to Lake Gondo Arum." asked Arya.

"Still, I've installed a lot of STRINGLINE along the path to the lake" replied Jack.

"About how many hours is the distance..?" ask Arya again.

"An hour in dry conditions and, do not know if the wet conditions like this" replied Jack with certainty.

"Nandhita how..? let's continue what's wrong here first..? now the rain conditions are still falling and the path is uncertain." asked Arya to Nandhita.

"Now the rainy conditions, the climb is certainly very slow, the estimated time it takes one and a half to two hours and now at 13.45 WNT, there is still time, with the record we leave as soon as possible." nandhita.

"We will leave at 15.00 WNT hopefully the rain has subsided, now we still have one hour and fifteen minutes to rest and get ready" said Arya firmly.

AT 15:15 WNT.

The rain that flushed stayed small specks, puddles in the soil basin were still clearly visible. The group started the journey again. Still accompanied by a faint fragrant aroma. Arya as the team commander was unceasingly encouraging them.

Various sightings began to they experienced.

Starting from a malfunctioning compass whose needles continue to spin or not move at all, until strange and unfamiliar sounds appear, the voice that called out the name of one of them there was even the sound of laughter that shrieked far and deep. But they continued their climb.

They are used to climbing mountains. They understand the consequences of every trip they go through. They realize that this world is also inhabited by invisible beings. They had walked for a very long time, they should have even reached the gondo arum lake.

Arya saw her team was very tired, and told to set up a tent. But suddenly they were surprised by the sound of gamelan in the distance. The smell of KANTIL flowers smelled by their noses increasingly smelled very fragrant.

"The aroma of this thick cantile flower indicates we are very close to the feet" said Nandhita in the middle of the strange atmosphere.

Hearing Nandhita's words no one answered, Arya just nodded slowly, the atmosphere was so gripping at that time. They are like entering into another dimension of space and time.

"Sorry brother Arya, let me lead the way now" said Nandhita again while walking forward leading the group.

A moment after Nandhita led a lake lay before them. Clear water reflects the moonlight behind the faint grove of trees that emit the fragrant aroma of cantile flowers. In the middle of the lake there is a land there stands a very large tree and underneath there is a house that is not too big.

"Lake Gondo Arum and in the middle of the lake is a Cantile Flower Tree that has lived for hundreds of thousands of years." whispered Nandhita to Arya and Elya.

"Tonight we camped and set up a tent here" Nandhita told the team.

"Jack and all the team..!! Do as Nandhita says." Arya orders strictly.

"And use the lake water to cook and wash your body, but one thing is not to waste in the lake water" said Nandhita again while taking the lake water with both palms and drinking it.

As in the orders of Arya and Elya followed what Nandhita did, there was a fresh sensation when the lake water entered into his throat, feeling tired and tired after traveling lost and replaced by a sense of comfort and his body feels very fit.

"It's weird but it's real." murmured Elya.

"Jack after they have finished setting up the tent, have them cook and fill all the empty drinking water with this lake water" Arya ordered.

"Ready man." replied Jack briefly on the sidelines of his busy set up a tent.

Four tents are finished. After finishing cooking and filling the stomach of those who have not filled food since morning. Finally they fell asleep in the silent decapitation of the jungle.

AT 00:00 WNT.

Arya was awake there was a hand gently swaying her body that made her wake up. His eyes widened in shock as he looked at who had awakened him.

...CREATED FEBRUARY 1, 2022...

...~° CINK's eL A °~...

...“I slowed down while climbing. Nature is more relaxed. The sun rises, it moves across the sky, and you begin to align with that rhythm."...

...~ JOHN MACKEY ~...