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

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.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

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.

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's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

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