I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Climbing is a journey without culmination.

Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.