Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.