You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

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.

You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know what they're doing.

What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.