The 8K project has been playing a major role and has been in the center of Veikka’s life for all his adulthood, for 17 years. Sounds as the 14 8000ers have been climbed, it’s a really a relief for him. That also shows how much just one 8000m mountain takes effort, time, energy and preparation to climb, but 14 of them is a huge project.
Now it time to let go and move on. Again it sounds that Veikka is very excited to aim for new targets, where ever they’ll be. Africa perhaps? Yesterdays dinner party at BC and also many other rituals will be parts of the process a person must go through to leave something behind and plan for new ones.