In the Realm Called the 'Playground of the Gods'
‘The bold adventurer succeeds the best.’ Day 0 - The Invitation ‘So, you’ve been to Pulag?’ Expect this rhetorical question once you’ve let the information that you’re a mountaineer slip during casual conversation. In my case, it took me ten mountains before I was able to triumphantly answer ‘Yes’ to that question. I pursued Pulag through the difficult route and that is via the ‘Killer Trail’ or the less taken Akiki Trail. We did a traverse climb of Pulag in a two-day hike, ascending from Akiki and descending to Ambangeg. It was a long and memorable journey towards this famed Cordilleran Mountain, with this being my first overnight hike. A lot of things happened which led to some self-realizations and some discoveries. It took a long time for an opportunity to climb Pulag to come. So when that opportunity finally came, I instantly accepted the invitation. It didn’t occur to me at first that it was a two day journey, that I had to shell out a significant amount o