Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others ….

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck..

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those fi….

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure..

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weigh….

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles..

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort..

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play be….

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own cr….

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very in….

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility..

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from ca….

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run..

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing..

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story….

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece..

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a p….

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write..

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to….

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striv….

The explorer is the person who is lost..