They will do it with a smile. They will do it completely selflessly, they will do it, just because you are doing what you are doing.
Most climbers are familiar with the pain cave. That place you go when things are getting really tough. It’s quiet in there. It’s just you, your breathing, your front wheel and the road one metre in front of your wheel. Your legs hurt. Your back hurts, your shoulders and neck hurt.
Our own Brendan Edwards has completed not one, or two but six Everests and has been asked on numerous occasions what it takes to get through an Everest.
Here’s some advice that he’s learned along the way.