The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.