It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.