Mandy Moore is having one hell of a good year. She’s on a beloved TV show (This Is Us, of course). She’s got a fabulous new kitchen remodel. Oh, and she’s also been busy scaling the 19,341-foot tall behemoth known as Mount Kilimanjaro.
In early April, the singer and actress made her way to Tanzania, where she hiked Mount Kilimanjaro alongside her fiancé Taylor Goldsmith and friends. She Instagrammed the entire journey because did it really happen if you don’t have pics to prove it?
“There’s nothing more empowering than realizing that we are all capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for,” Moore noted in a post.
Clearly, the journey left a mark. So, to celebrate the trek, Moore got a teeny, tiny tattoo on her foot in the shape of Mount Kilimanjaro.
“The mountain. Forever commemorated. Thank you @winter_stone for the reminder of what we accomplished,” Moore shared in an Instagram post alongside a photo of her new body art.
According to People, Moore wasn’t the only one to get the mountain-themed tattoo. Her friend and fellow climber Chase Weideman got the same design, only his was placed on his leg instead of his foot. “I lived on her. And we survived off of and on her, and I walked every step all the way to the top of her, with my best friends,” he wrote in his Instagram post.
Since her climb, Moore has posted a number of images remembering just how much she loves her adventure buddies and the mountain itself. “I miss the mountain already,” she wrote in a post one week ago. “I miss the daily rituals and customs that became forever ingrained in the fabric of what this experience was; the ‘water for washing’ every morning and evening, our instant coffee at breakfast, the constant peels of laughter at all of the inside jokes, finding the rhythm of packing and unpacking at every new camp site, the high fives and pleasantries and shorthand exchanged with our porters…. I also miss the simplicity of it all.”
She further explained that she’s been trying to apply the principles she learned on the trip into her regular life because this journey was about “so much more than simply checking off some item on life’s To-Do list.” Hopefully, now she’ll remember those lessons with every step she takes on that new tattoo.
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