The game that everyone wants to be in - the Super rugby final.
The climax of a season that started for most Highlanders players back at the end of November last year.
Now the Highlanders have to make the final foray. Climb that Hillary step. Put in the last big push.
They have made it to the big show on the back of some top performances this year - none better than last week's against a misfiring Waratahs side.
The week before, the Highlanders were worthy winners over the Chiefs.
Momentum is with the Highlanders as they run into a cauldron at Westpac Stadium tonight in what is one of the biggest games to take place in this country for many years.
With this much at stake, and plenty of excitement, it is not going to come down to physical skills or the hours in the gym.
This one is about the top two inches - the mental strength to stay composed and play to the absolute best of their ability for the entire 80 minutes.
The Highlanders have over-achieved this year, and will not want to finish with a loss. But winning the big one is not going to be easy.
The Hurricanes have been the form team all year and have weapons all over the park. The likes of Julian Savea, Nehe Milner-Skudder and Ma'a Nonu are dangerous whenever they get the ball.
But weapons have to have some artillery to prosper, and in a rugby sense that comes back to two things: possession and territory.
Last year, when they won in Wellington, the Highlanders put on a master class in how to win a game they really had no right to win.
They just pegged the Hurricanes back in their own half, tackled like demons and frustrated the home team into a loss.
That probably will not work again tonight - the Hurricanes are a substantially better side than they were last year - but determination in defence and an acute tactical sense will go a long way to victory.
The Highlanders have worked hard for each other this year. The unheralded forward pack is doing the job every week and will continue to do that tonight.
The key, as it often does, lies with the inside backs. Aaron Smith and Lima Sopoaga have to find the corners with their kicks and seize any chance, no matter how small, when it comes along.
The back three of the Highlanders loom large.
Winger Waisake Naholo has scored tries this year that are two shades short of freakish and he will need to be at his best tonight.
Behind them all is the most dependable back in the country, Ben Smith. If anyone deserves a Super rugby title, it is Smith.
He stuck by his team when it was at its lowest and has played at a consistently brilliant level for years.
In the mire of 2013, if everyone had played as well as Smith did, the Highlanders would have won the title in a canter.
As it was, he stayed around, and now two years later the side has its chance for glory.
There are a million sub-plots and stories within stories in sport.
But often it just comes down one thing. Who wants it the most?
The Highlanders have had a great year. There is no denying that.
They just need one more mighty effort to bring home the title.
