You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
Yvon ChouinardEvil doesnโt have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
Yvon ChouinardA real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.
Yvon ChouinardYou have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
Yvon Chouinard