“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first six sharpening the axe”
Abraham Lincoln
For those of you planning to climb a mountain, it is not enough to just show up at base camp with your gear and a positive attitude. Proper preparations are necessary- beforehand. They say it is with superior information and sufficient preparations that you stand an extremely good chance of reaching the summit. And going by my climbing partner, Stephanie?s relentless email updates, I could see that at least one of us was definitely going to summit.