The fatigue cacncels out the joy, so you're kind of in this middle space. Chin says. Anker's thoughts were equally conflicted. Exhilaration is something the great climber rarely experiences on the summit. "I mean, sure we were saying "wow, we made it." But I always get to the sumit and somehow it doeson't mean anything. It's just another point. It's crazy. The sumit is waht drives us, but the climb itself is what matters. I'd been so so happy to be back there, and climbing that mountain again, but only because I'd loved climbing itself.