Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
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As they hiked the Himalayas in 2023, Alysa Liu and her best friend – Shay Newton – found themselves in a deep, existential argument.
Given the option and only this option, they debated, would you rather come back as a chicken or a cow?
It was an absurd conversation, Liu admits now, but after seven hours of trekking uphill and “squatting and pissing behind rocks,’’ the pair had crossed over the threshold. The absurd became essential. By this point in their trip to Nepal, the pair was deep in reflective mode, learning and sharing all sorts of things about and with each other. The cow or chicken choice seemed rather crucial at the time.
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