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.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

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

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

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

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

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.