Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.