The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.