Technique and ability alone ...

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.
 Junko Tabei

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
 Junko Tabei
There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.
 Junko Tabei
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
 Junko Tabei