Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.