During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.