Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

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.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

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.

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.