“THE SUMMIT, which we reached three days later, was beautiful but anticlimactic, as they always seem to be. We work so hard and take so many risks on these climbs that I suppose it’s inevitable that mountaintops hardly ever live up to the monumental billing we attach to them. The letdown is so common that some climbers have said that summits don’t matter. It’s a gallant idea, but if the summit doesn’t matter, where exactly are we heading when we set off from the base? Synnott, Mark. The Impossible Climb (p. 173). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Synnott, Mark. The Impossible Climb (p. 173). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ”
