We were 14,000 feet up on Mount Bierstadt as my legs began to give out. It had been hours since we first set eyes on the huge mountain and now I wished we hadn’t even started. I forced myself to move my feet. Right, left, right, left. Just a couple hundred more feet. All I could think was, so, what lies atop this gargantuan mountain? My breathing got harder and my will to make it was withering. Then suddenly the ground flattened out and I realized I had made it.