I'm told you get to the peak, starting in a wonderful place (6)
I believe the answer is:
utopia
'wonderful place' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'i'm told you get to the peak starting in a' is the wordplay.
'i'm told' shows a homophone (sound like).
'get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'to the peak' becomes 'top' ('top' can be a synonym of 'peak').
'starting' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'in' is 'i'.
'you' sounds like 'u'.
'u'+'top'+'i'+'a'='UTOPIA'
(Other definitions for utopia that I've seen before include "Ideal country" , "work in Latin" , "Supposed ideal land" , "More's imaginary state" , "Imaginary ideal place" .)