When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.