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On a glacier in Iceland, I stared into the abyss of my fears
Holidaying with friends helped the writer overcome her fear of trekking on slopes.
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The writer struggling through her glacier trek with the guide ahead of her.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF CHUA MUI HOONG
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The night before the glacier trek, I couldn’t sleep. All day, my girlfriends and I had been excited about our upcoming hike in the Vatnajokull National Park, a vast expanse of mountains, plains, volcanoes and ice caps.
This was June, and five of us from Singapore were on a road trip through the famed ring road of Iceland. Friends since schooling days, we had been taking an annual holiday together since the year we turned 50.
