The Build Up.

The grunt factor; the puff of dirt as the hiking sticks impact on the unforgiving track; the wait awhile prone to attack, the ever present cassowary ready to disembowel, the sweat seeping into every orifice and the endless climb are a hikers greatest adversary.  But the view takes the breath away and the solitude of sitting on an outcrop looking down at the world makes it all just fine.  Things that make us go mmmmm!