With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body.

Most injuries happen when you're not motivated, too, and you're forcing yourself to do something. Your mind's not aligned with your body and you're just going through the motions. That's when you're most likely to get injured.

I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.

For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do.

The rock still has something to teach me.

I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.