DEREK CORDIER

The second and fifth days were the most arduous. Those were the two days that the local Namibian guide, Corbus, took us to places he had never been. The second day, after lunch, we hiked up and down an extinct volcano. The volcano was made up of boulders ranging in size from softball to Volkswagen. It took hours to walk a mile. We made it to camp at sunset. I was so exhausted by the time we came down from the top of the volcano I literally thought I was going to pass out. I had befriended a guy from Manhattan named Michael, who insisted on taking my pack. That was just an example of how our group got along.

Primary location: Harrisburg United States