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What are you chasing? On the knife-edge summit of Moldoveanu Peak, where Romania tilts into the sky at 2,544 meters, you don’t just stand — you hang suspended between earth and eternity. It was here, on a wind-harassed outcrop in the 20th century, that surveyors with more grit than sense finally fixed its height, etching Moldoveanu’s supremacy above Viștea Mare, Negoiu, and Lespezi into cartographic scripture. These are not mountains that flatter; they loom like weathered monarchs, their spines