It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potentia….

When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond….

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger..

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources..

Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and d….

Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and ….

I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you'….

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain..

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can..

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events,….

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward..

Confidence without skill is just emptiness..

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things..

It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a ….

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the r….

I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know wha….

When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way ….

Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of….

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they….

You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my b….