First Time I Saw The Snow
Personal memory by Manuel Perez
2012 CE • El Cocuy, Boyaca, Colombia
"I used to go hiking with family, and I remember one time when we hiked a snowy mountain. We got to the top after four days of hiking, and I saw the snow for the first time in my life. It was an amazing feeling, and I couldn't believe it. Unfortunately, I got so excited I wanted to jump in the snow, but one of the guides forbade me from doing so. He said the snow is slowly disappearing, and we have to be very delicate now. It wasn't always that way, the mountains were covered with a lot more snow than today, but it's slowly fading away."
Image: Martin Roca, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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