When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

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

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

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

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

that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.