Viaje en el tiempo
La dama me miró por un momento antes de darme la bienvenida con un sonreír tan amigable como caluroso, que solo una abuela lanza a su nieto. Abordó la palabra con un léxico anticuado de la misma era que su ropa. A pesar de no estar acostumbrado a escuchar un vernáculo de unos cientos de años, era capaz de descifrar una parte de lo que me estaba contando. La mujer se llamaba Aura. Estaba esperando a cualquier persona que estuviera interesada en probar su máquina dentro de la carpa: un dispositivo antiguo que según lo que me estaba relatando con total convicción, permitiría el viaje en el tiempo.
The Roof of the World
Unlike other climbers, he could not afford more than one week of reprieve from work during his preparation, nor could he pick a climbing season at the last minute should conditions suddenly become favorable. After much deliberation, and fueled by countless inspiring stories of sacrifice and achievement at the top of what the locals call Sagarmatha, he accepted that the three-year goal he had committed to would not give in to any delays or changes. Ren, at thirty years of age, known to eat healthily, to exercise five times a week, resolved to take on any set of conditions that awaited him on Mount Everest; whether ideal as he would have preferred, or disastrous as he would ultimately encounter.