You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.

Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.