As in all acts of extreme physical endurance, you learn more about yourself when things are going wrong rather than when it's easy. It's when that moment of self-doubt starts poking at your brain, promising that it'll all be OK if you just let it go. No one will get on your back for taking the easy way out, you tell yourself. And then you have a decision to make: Do you submit to temptation, or do you keep on moving, one leg rotation after another, left, right, left, right, until you're finally over the mountain? Anyone who claims to know for sure which way they'd go in a given situation is a certain liar, because until you find yourself in that lonely place, you simply don't know.
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