Seven Summits
If you want to feel good about yourself, do good things 
Success is a journey, not a destination
Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go…
The difference between the impossible, and the possible, lies in a person's determination.
The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
There are two ways to meet life; you can stay safe and bored. Or you can care greatly, and live greatly - till life breaks you on it's wheel.
Life is what we make it. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
If your goal is to become more relaxed and happy at home, you must create an activity that is yours exclusively, something you do – just for you.
The object of life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, 'Wow, What a Ride!
The mind is in its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The Seven Summits Team is a group of Wild Women On Top currently in the process of making Australian history by putting a team of women on the highest mountain on every continent, including Mt Everest, before they die (Of old age that is!)
Schedule:
2005: Mt Kosciusko (Australia) 2228m - Achieved
2005: Mt Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) 5985m - Achieved
2006: Mt Elbrus (Russia) 5642m - Achieved
2008: Mt Aconcagua (South America) 6959m - Achieved
2009: Mt McKinnley (America) 6194m
2012: Mt Everest (Himalayas) 8848m
2013: Mt Vinson (Antarctica) 5140mMt
This highly motivated and committed team of Aussie mums has progressed from casual trekkers to extreme sport mountaineers in the past six years. They are ordinary women achieving extraordinary goals.
So far, the team has climbed Australia's two highest mountains, Mt Kosciusko and Mt Townsend, in one day. And they have also made history with a 100% success rate in their Kilimanjaro team climb. Mum's Kick ... defied the odds by putting ALL 15 team members on the summit of the highest freestanding mountain on earth, in a blizzard!!! Given that the average is 1 in 4, this is a remarkable result.
In September 2006, the Seven Summits Team climbed the highest mountain in Europe, Mt Elbrus. The team was led by famous Australian mountaineer, Brigitte Muir, who took the place of Sue Fear, after she was killed in a crevasse on Mt Manaslu in April. Four mums summitted under difficult conditions with a dangerously short acclimatization period. Mt Elbrus is an extreme weather mountain, requiring some technical skill and this result was considered incredible for a bunch of mums in their late forties.
In January 2008, a team of 7 women climbed the highest mountain in the Southern Hemisphere, Mt Aconcagua, 6,989m. Four of the team reached the summit at 5pm on 12 January, one day after the death of Everest legend, Sir Edmund Hillary. The three other team members were turned back by guides, one at 6,700m and the remaining two at 6,450m. In true Wild Women on Top style, the team were all wearing summit undies that said "Never, Never, Never give up." And they never never never did!
