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.

When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.

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

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

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.