What's the icy reality!

Each section of the climb has it's own challenges and as the
climbers gain more ground and bodies start to have aches and
painseaenergy levels are down, theair is thinner making each step
a little more baboued andthe summit is a distant reality, it's
time for a reality check! Good climbers will evaluate where they
are at, physically, mentally and emotionally, as this wdetermine
the succus of there mountain experience! This is not a point when
asked, How are you doing? To say great or good when in reality
the experience is sucking into ? three ares, as hard as it may
beto sharethe truth, one must do it or possiblycome a cropper on
the icy slope!Having taken a reality check, the climbers now
cencourage each other to pushthrough ? barriers and draw on each
others strengths to carry them to the goal. The lessons and
experiences gained from such a time as this are invaluable.The w
team stands for; Together every one achieves m.S often on lifes
mountains when asked how we are going, we say great, good, when
in fact if we are honest with ourselves we are finding the going
hard and for some reason we feel the need to put on a brave face
and telling the truth makes us less of a person! Lifes true
mountaineers have learnt the art of a shoulder to lean on
andfacing the icy reality always pays off!If the icy reality
isn't checked, one can very easily become dazed and confused,
this leads to fatige, disorientated, bad decision making, loss of
hope and the goalccdream no longer present.
as Kiwi's we have a saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough
get going" this is true to a certain extent, but this will only
carry you so farb to last the distance you need a reality checand
awingness to draw strength from other mountaineers and not forge
on, you need to reach that summit in the best condition and not
just crawl the last few metres and say I made it! How will you
ever decent if you have pushed yourself to the limit!
As an observer watching a documentary about aclimb expedition and
marveling at the achievement, gives you no understanding what the
climbers went through to reach the summit and return again and
the life changing moments they encountered, this is stuff money
can never buy and all thestudy and courses in the world can never
give you!