A first ascent in this situation is like winning a competition where you are the only competitor. Just as it is necessary to learn to walk at first, the basic rules of granite climbing are learnt at the lowest end of the difficulty scale. I can climb everything. Climbing would be a truly great and wonderful thing if it wasn't for all that climbing. The conciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
Strength grows slowly in the heart of the lone wolf.
It must grow until it bursts upon me, it must grow like love. My worst enemy on the way to this goal is fear. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. Last sentence of Maurice Herzog's book, Annapurna, after losing most of his fingers and toes. There are no other Aparnas in the lives of Penn.