It had been about a year or so since I actually climbed Namsan, the mountain that I live next to. I see it, I see the tower, but climbing it has fallen down on my list of priorities. So I decided to climb it.
The funny thing is, it really wasn’t that big after all. While climbing I pondered just how many steps there were. My guess is about a thousand, but that’s such a round number. Then I thought, what if a guy weighing 70kg offered you $10,000 to carry him up to the top. Would you do it? I think I would. Maybe it would take some time to do it, but it would be worth the money. Then I thought, maybe the guy would have a requirement where if you failed he would take $10,000 from you. It was while I was pondering this that my friend at the time told me that I should just climb the mountain and stop bothering her with stupid questions.
So I asked her the answer to the riddle about the man coming to a fork in the road where he meets the two brothers, one a liar, one completely honest who will direct the traveler to his salvation or doom, depending on the path he takes. I told her she had to think of a single question to ask both of the brothers to find the correct way. She asked me when I would stop asking her questions.
So we climbed the mountain and took nice pictures on the way. They do appear quite dark, but that would be because of the storm clouds rolling in around the mountains. Next time, I will climb a bigger mountain, possibly one of the mountains you can see in the photos way in the distance.
I’ll probably have to think of some more puzzles before then.
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