After climb­ing Mount Ever­est, once you’re stand­ing on top of the world, the hard work, pain and suf­fer­ing, and the nag­ging ques­tion of why am I doing this?, all seem to dis­solve into the ether.
Isn’t it obvi­ous? But, ok; Moun­tain Mad­ness climber Julio B. summed it up nice­ly, ​“Watch­ing the sun­rise from the Bal­cony was the real­iza­tion of a dream. The Tibetan high­lands yawned to my left, Nepal on my right, and the Earth’s cur­va­ture vis­i­ble on the hori­zon.” After climb­ing Mount Ever­est, once you’re stand­ing on top of the world, the hard work, pain and suf­fer­ing, and the nag­ging ques­tion of why am I doing this?, all seem to dis­solve into the ether.