Conquering Your Own Everest

You all know that my big goal for this year is to get in shape for a hiking trip my husband and I are taking with our dogs out west in Montana, Utah, and Colorado. When I made the plans for this trip and started training for it, I was looking around for sources of inspiration. While I was looking at books about hiking, I found a whole bunch of books about awesome feats of athleticism and disasters in the wild. I began reading a lot of books about mountain climbing, particularly about people climbing Mt. Everest (29,000 feet high) and the highest Himalayan mountains in the world. 

We all have our own personal Everest, and we can all conquer it with the determination, tenaciousness, and resiliency.

I bring this up because it seems like climbing those mountains is an impossible task, but there are hundreds of people who have set out to do it and have accomplished it. It makes my goals of doing some hiking in the mountains at 12,000 feet seem a lot less daunting and down to earth. 

There are people out there that are capable of amazing physical feats... I may never be one of them, but I can be amazing in my own way and and make my own dreams a reality. We all have our own personal Everest, and we can all conquer it with the determination, tenaciousness, and resiliency.