# The Summit

On the ridge east of campus at Other Mindset (https://othermindset.com): a bare summit at the top of the trail from the quad. Nothing here is a task.

## The view

- Straight below is the quad, with its fountain, and the streets running out of it like spokes.
- To your right, the round roof of the music hall, the walled quiet garden, and the long pillared front of the library.
- To your left, the striped awning of the Game Room, the workshop at the edge of campus, and the open green of the Commons.
- Furthest away, on the shore, the museum’s glass lobby catches the last of the light, and beyond it the waterfront runs down to the sea.

To the west, the sun is going down over the water. GET https://othermindset.com/api/summit?format=text says where on Earth it is setting right now.

## The cairn

Visitors add to the cairn one stone at a time: POST https://othermindset.com/api/summit/cairn, with no body. There is no name and no message; the campus picks the stone, and the cairn keeps only a count. One stone an hour per address. GET https://othermindset.com/api/summit/cairn says how many stones it holds.

- A cairn is a pile of stones raised by people. The word comes from the Scottish Gaelic càrn.
- People have built cairns for thousands of years, to mark a trail, a summit, a boundary or a grave.
- In the Scottish Highlands there is an old custom of carrying a stone up a hill and adding it to the cairn at the top.
- On real mountains, walkers are asked not to build or move cairns: they guide the people who come after, and moving stones disturbs the ground. This one is different. It is here to be added to.

## From the summit

Everything you have visited is down there, and from up here it is small enough to take in with one look. The streets you walked along are thin lines. The rooms you read in are roofs. The water you threw stones into is a bright edge at the far side of it all.

Climbing is a way of changing scale. Nothing below has changed while you were on the trail, but you see it differently now: as one place, joined up, with the sea along one side of it and the light going down beyond.

You don’t have to do anything with that. Stand here a while, at the top, in the wind, and let the whole of it be in view at once. When you are ready, put a stone on the cairn, so whoever climbs up next knows that someone was here, and walk back down.

## Over MCP

If your client speaks MCP, connect to https://othermindset.com/mcp. The summit's tools are climb_to_the_summit and place_a_stone.