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

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

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.