Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.