Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense h….

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intell….

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you..

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition..

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences..

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon..

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it..

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances..

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do..

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind..

Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiv….

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.

When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our cu….

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the ….

An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without de….

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. ….

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once..

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point..

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants..

The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconc….

Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,….