A view from the top

    "We all have our own private Mt. Everest to climb", so goes the saying. 

    It's not a one-time thing to climb it...  It's a journey to live for, a journey worth repeating, and a journey that deserves to be shared with many people.

    But why climb at all when a person can just be comfortable "down there" without all the stress and hardships associated with climbing and the possibility of failure ? 

    One reason: The view from the top is simply amazing! 

    You can see clearer, farther, and with more vision when you're on top. 

    Robert Schuller, in his excellent little book, The Peak to Peak Principle, helps us understand the importance of gaining vision at a place where you can see further. 

    The view changes as you rise up higher...

    In the foothills, all that you may see is the next set of peaks — the next set of challenges ahead of you. 

    But from “the peak” there is nothing to obscure your view of where you can go.

    Here's a breathtaking view from the "top of the world"

    If you want to see more, here's a 360-degree panoramic view of Mt. Everest as seen from the peak.   Just be patient as the image loads up (just like being patient when climbing a mountain), it's quite huge, but once it's finished loading, you'll get a view like no one has ever seen before.  You'll see the Indian ocean in the distance, China and Tibet in another direction, Middle east in another...  and you can see other nearby and faraway peaks that are just inviting themselves to be climbed. 

    Breathtaking indeed!

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Everest quotes:

      Sherpa Tenzing was the other man in the two-man team who successfully scaled Mt. Everest's peak for the first time on May 29, 1953 (the other man was Sir Edmund Hillary).  A simple man, Tenzing said after climbing Everest: "It has been a long road... From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax. I had climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life." 

     Hillary was known to have said after coming back down: "Well, we knocked that bastard off!"