"If you want to climb mountains
one must have a good base camp,
a place where there are shelters and provisions,
where one may receive nurture and rest
before one venture forth again
to seek another summit."

"Successful mountain climbers know that they must
spend at least as much time, if not more,
in tending to their base camp as they
actually do in climbing mountains,
for their survival is dependent upon their
seeing to it that their base camp is
sturdily constructed and well stocked."
M.S. Peck