Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it..

We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfat….

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever..

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday..

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning..

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted d….

Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of dese….

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to….

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pret….

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a lif….

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far..

A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden libera….

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain..

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are wh….

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of yo….

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations ….

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself..

I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied th….

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up ….

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life..

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will ….