“More than the doing of the deed itself, it was the years of anticipation and preparation leading up to it that seemed to me the most impressive thing about this whole endeavor. I imagined that I was Alex and that I had set myself a nearly impossible task—something I absolutely did not have to do. I could walk away. But I didn’t. Instead, I dug in—hard. I broke the inconceivable thing down into bite-size pieces, and every day, I worked on one of them, never worrying about the next, or how they would all eventually fit together. Synnott, Mark. The Impossible Climb (p. 351). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Synnott, Mark. The Impossible Climb (p. 351). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ”
