What Climbing Mt. Blanc, the EU’s Highest Mountain, Taught Me About Discipline
Every year, around 100 people die climbing it.
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary (first to summit Mt. Everest)
Your legs are hurting, you are breathing hard, and your chest feels like it is going to burst out of your body. Yet, you continue putting one foot in front of the other and struggle on.
That’s the basic description of what you will feel like when you go up Mt. Blanc. As one of the characters in the movie “Everest” said, climbing is just pain.
It is the ultimate test of your willpower. It takes an enormous amount of mental strength and perseverance to be able to finally reach the top.
This especially applies to people who spend most of their year sitting in their office being desk jockeys. For a person who doesn’t get out of the city much, this can be quite challenging.
It is not an insurmountable task though. Every year, thousands of people manage to climb it. The pain lasts only a short time, but the memories last a lifetime.
Struggle on for a few days, but from then on, you will be a person who climbed the mountain. That…
