MountainZone.com: Everyone has been asking you a lot questions in the past four weeks. Is there a question that no one has asked that you wished they would ask?

Weathers: There was one that I got asked early on and it is still one that I found intriguing then and it's only with the passage of time that I now know the answer. When I first got back, one of the questions was always, 'If you knew what was going to happen to you, would you do it again?' I thought initially, 'What a dumb question!' I mean, take a look at me, I'm a train wreck!

But with the passage of some time, I actually came to know the answer to that, which was that if I knew exactly what was going to happen to me on that mountain, every horrific moment and the aftermath of trying to claw your way back out of that hole once you get back, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Because I gained so much more than I lost. I mean it really wound up, ultimately, because having to come through some horrible moments, it managed to salvage relationships that were pretty much destroyed. And really for the first time in my entire life, I'm at peace. I don't have to climb, I don't have to have that monkey on my back anymore. That's a very nice thing. I like that question.