You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.