Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

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.

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.

Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.

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.

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

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