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1…2…3…I could count my own steps as I made my way to the most spectacular, magnificent and ever beaconing, the Mt Everest. It took me 5 complete breathe to take one step forward. Collapsing at each and every step of my walk, I picked up my fragile body and starting to move stronger and stronger. I looked ahead of the trekking trail which was getting harder at every point of time. Having absolutely no hope of returning home, I set aside some effort to chew the cud of my past journey. Well, my name is Rohith Saraswathi and I am an Indian. I was born and raised in Bangalore. I was raised as an overcomer fighting against poverty. I was a bright and a mischievous student at school. I graduated from RV College of Engineering in 2012. Later I joined Nestle and ABB and work with them for 5 long years. I carried on an exceptionally extravagant and excellent corporate life. But as an individual, I lacked the sense of accomplishment. Out of nowhere I settled on a decision to face the greatest challenge of my life. I shut down my job which was paying me a 6 digit pay on 16 December 2016. I secured myself a space in a locked room for series of days and underwent a deep introspection searching the purpose of my life. As I began drawing an obvious conclusion of my life in reverse, my mind got me connected to an incident that happened 16 years ago. It was in a 6th grade classroom, my teacher noticed me scribbling on the picture of Mt Everest on the textbook and ridiculed in front of my fellow students. She said “If you put down something here its only limited to the classroom. But if you go to the actual Mt Everest and put down something there, the whole world would get an opportunity to see what you’ve done.” These words took profound roots in my mind. What's more, I desperately needed to get it going. May or may not because of what the teacher had told me, but for the very reason that I had found the purpose of my life. I picked an unusual way of travelling. Truly, I decided to hitchhike. I travelled all the way from Bangalore to Kathmandu, Nepal a journey summing up to 3100 kilometers without paying a single penny. I went on the Lorries, trucks, jeeps and what not. It was super exciting to experience one of kind adventure. Eventually, I proceeded to climb the Mt Everest. When I put my foot on the mother mountain for the very first time, I felt like being a little kid with positively no stresses and loaded with extreme joy. For the absolute first time in all my years, I was exposed to such horrendous climatic situations. The temperature was -38ºC at an altitude of 5550mts ASL and the wind gushing at the speed of 155 kmph. My body temperature read 105F and blood was oozing out of my nose. I encountered the most outraging snowstorm and witnessed avalanched with my own eyes. At a certain point in time, when I could scarcely move and being surrounded by those mighty mountains encompassing me in all the 360º directions, I looked up to the mountains and the mountains said “Of all the parts in the body, I can pin point and show you the amount of pain that you are undergoing, but you don’t give up on this journey. I know you can do it, take one step forward, take another step forward…” the mountain itself came to my rescue and motivated me to move forward. Days after days, kilometres after kilometres, the journey got tougher and I got stronger. I found overwhelming joy when I finally made it to Everest Base Camp. The greatest life lesson that the mother mountain taught me is “Each one of us possesses a reservoir of untapped energy in us with which we can bring anything that we conceive in our mind to reality” We can discover numerous who endure, however I was reawakened. We can find many who survived, but I was reborn. The mountains are calling…!!!