Climbing Mt. Sinai
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:19 pm
Recently I was in Egypt. One of the places we went was Mt. Sinai. This is the traditional site where Moses saw a burning bush and later received the Ten Commandments. Anyway, it is about 8000 feet tall -- climbing each step of the way -- and you have to walk several miles up a rocky trail before you even get to the base of the mountain. We left at 12:30 in the morning and came back about 8 AM. It was quite a sight to see the sun come up over those mountains. Anyway, the journey was long and hard. Most people rode camels up the mountain. I am fifty one years old, and climbed the mountain with relative ease. I wasn't even sore the next day, though I was sleepy as we continued our journey towards Cairo. I credit the Charles Atlas system, which I never stopped doing on my trip (no need to find a gym, I carry it with me). Thanks Mr. Atlas. Because of you and your system I was able to do what only one other person in my entire traveling party would even attempt to do, and most of them were younger than me.