“I didnt say a word. He wouldnt be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”

“Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.”

“Dont ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.”

“Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. Its the closest Ive ever felt to dying.”

“I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.”

“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in hig...”

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

“We only have one life (unless youre a cat or a Buddhist) and its often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to t...”

“The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.”