Mitch Leong

‘It’s not that simple.’ Though you and I know the truth. I summited Mount Temple for the first time in the summer of last year. Hooked to finally climb one of the tallest peaks in the Rockies. A challenge I was not yet familiar with, yet I still oddly yearned for more after I had conquered it. I dreamt of walking along the ridge, nothing but clouds flooding the valleys, and stars above. I saw this frame in my mind from the moment I left the summit a year ago. Some said “it wasn’t that simple”, that I was “in over my head” or I’d stepped too far this time. That to attempt something like this I had to be “crazy”. In life, not just in mountaineering. If you believe that your dreams and goals are just one step, one thought, or one day away from being achieved, they really can be. The only reason they may seem so far away is because we behave in accordance to that belief. So the truth… it really is that simple, and it always was.