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

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

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

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

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.