A friend sent a postcard on WhatsApp: Against the backdrop of blood-red mountains, the inscription: “Every dead person on Everest was once an incredibly motivated person.” I was simply shocked!!! I’ve never thought about this. There is an opinion that you need to be stress-resistant, motivated for success, purposeful and you will be happy! Is this really so??? A motivated person sets a goal for himself and, despite the difficulties, achieves it. Lately in society, much attention is paid to the development of such qualities as determination, responsibility and self-confidence. These qualities allow a person to achieve success in many areas of life: study, profession, sports, ..., climbing Everest. There are many psychological motivational trainings that help improve the level of determination of the individual and this trait is strengthened. 26-year-old Ksenia Samarina attended one of these trainings in 2018. At that time, she was the owner of a beauty salon. The condition for attending the training was to come up with a very expensive dream that would deprive you of peace and sleep. Buying an apartment and a car did not inspire the girl, but the thought of getting to the highest point on Earth captured her. Ksenia became famous for climbing Everest as the youngest Russian woman. She did not undergo any preliminary training and realized her dream a month and a half after this idea came to her mind. The girl’s impressions at the time of returning to the camp after climbing to the top: “This is the most terrible thing I have ever experienced in my life.” Motivations for the ascent Everest can be roughly divided into productive and unproductive. Since ancient times, many cultures have had an initiation rite. One of the forms of male initiation is the ability to overcome the fear of death in a situation of a real vital threat. Such overcoming the fear of death makes a man a man capable of living with the feeling that he can overcome everything. But there are a large number of unproductive motivations, which are based on the need to satisfy personal ambitions. What will a psychoanalyst think when a person comes to him and says that he is going to climb Everest? The analyst will think about WHAT motivates him to achieve these Goals: Doesn’t value the people with whom he enters into relationships? Perhaps behind this is such a high concentration on oneself that the feelings and experiences of loved ones are not taken into account at all. They are only expected to admire his achievements, and he becomes the Navel of the Earth for them. The relationship becomes painful, and then he concentrates on himself more and more. As a result, all his achievements become a way to sublimate the dissatisfaction that arises in close relationships. Does he have a fear of failures, is he so eager to avoid them? Perhaps his determination, the ability to reach this height is a fear of failures, which is also not a very good motivation for receiving satisfaction from the expected victories. After achieving the desired results, the winner becomes depressed and falls into a vicious circle. He is again forced to strive to conquer the peak and conquer. Delusions of grandeur? The desire to be above everyone? Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, famous for being the first to climb all 14 “eight-thousanders” in the world and climbed Everest alone in the summer of 1980 without auxiliary oxygen in special cylinders that are used on ascents. Later, he described his feelings after climbing to the highest point on Earth (8848 meters above sea level): “I sink into the snow, heavy as a stone from fatigue... But they don’t rest here. I'm exhausted and exhausted to the limit... Another half hour - and I'm finished... It's time to leave. There is no sense of the grandeur of what is happening. I’m too tired for this.” Absolute lack of understanding of the danger? Climbing to heights, especially above 8000 meters, is very dangerous. Low oxygen concentration, as a result: oxygen starvation, apathy, decreased motor activity, in acute.