The begining of the end...

My dad recently wrote to me about my climb and quoted an author by the name of Harlen Coben who suggests the importance of living the great cliches: "Live like it is your last day", "Pain is temporary, quitting is forever," and "Live in the moment." While training for this climb, We've heard many of these and simultaneously spoken them. My dad said that Coben pointed out that, "Unfortunately the great cliches are often the great insights." I agree with this sentiment as we, over the next five days will continually feed off of every heartfelt and encouraging insight that's been given over these last five months of training. Pushing us will be every "go for it" and "reach for the summit." Finally, as my friend Stacia said to us, "to every woman who though she couldn't..." here we go ;)
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