Erik Weihenmayer, on summits

"I think a summit isn't even a place on a mountain at all.    A summit, to me, is a symbol.
It's a symbol that, with the force of our minds and our bodies and our souls and with the power of [our] 2 small hands, we  an transform our lives into something miraculous.
And when we join our hands to those around us we can do even better than transforming our own lives, we can transform the very face of the earth!"