"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
it's about learning to dance in the rain."
- Vivian Greene
"I don't think we conquered Everest, I think the mountain relented."
"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
"...even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
"The only trips I regret are the ones I never took"
- Paddy Pallin
「山に対して優勝することじゃなくて、自分自身のことに対して優勝することだ。」
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Hiroshima - Peace Memorial ParkThe flame burning in this monument is not intended to be eternal - when the last nuclear weapon on earth has been destroyed it will be extinguished.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial ParkChildren's Peace Memorial - inspired by bomb survivor Sadako who developed leukaemia at the age of 10. She believed that if she could fold 1000 paper cranes (a symbol of longevity and happiness) she would recover. She was only able to fold 644 before she died, but school friends folded the remaining 356 and buried these with her.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial ParkChildren's Peace Memorial. One of these booths is left open each day for delivery of paper cranes which come from all over Japan.
