Jessica Biel: Mountain Climbing Cutie

Stepping out for a promotional appearance, Jessica Biel was spotted at the premiere screening of “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro” in New York City last night (March 10).

The “7th Heaven” hottie looked lovely as she arrived at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, sporting a black blazer overtop a multi-colored dress and strappy black heels.

Speaking of the grueling mountain climb featured in the show (premiering Sunday on VH1), Jessica explained, "She was like this mysterious, foreboding, ominous woman. And she was hidden almost all day long, and just when you were unmotivated, and feeling like crap and uninspired and thinking, 'What am I doing here?' the clouds would part and she would peek out, and the beauty would strike you, and then you'd be inspired again. And she was literally, like, this woman who would pull this veil over her face and disappear, and then she'd show a little bit of herself, and then she'd disappear again. It was kind of this running joke, but I really felt that way. I felt like, 'I respect you. Please let me get up, please.' "

Biel continued, "It was a combination of the mental and the psychological aspects of the mountain, of the slow-but-steady pace that you had to go up it, and that sometimes made your brain just want to explode, because you just wanted to get there so badly. And then you couldn't see anything at night, when we were doing our ascent attempt, and you start thinking that it would never end and you'd start to think, 'Why am I here? This is miserable!'”

"But then you'd get this rush of inspiration of 'I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing this for something bigger than me, for people who don't have a voice, for people that need water around the world,' and then you'd power through. Your mind started to play tricks on you. And then, with the altitude, you just felt so strange. You didn't know why you were lethargic, you didn't know why you were so tired. It was an intense experience."

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Enjoy the pictures of Jessica Biel out for 'Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro' (March 10).