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You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.