Why climb ?

I have been thinking about why I want to climb Rainier so badly inspite of all the challenges and obstacles.
I have no clear answer to that but I think this famous quote sums it all up perfectly !!

"Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?  We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,  because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." 

                                                                                    - President Kennedy  

                                                                                            Sept 12,1962