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I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.
A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out
With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.
If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.
But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.
I love red bell peppers. Bell peppers in general, really. I like to eat them like apples. They're so crunchy and delicious.
We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate change, we won't be around as humans.
I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired.
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.
I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.
When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important thing when I'm soloing.
I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.
Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.
I think part of what made the original 'Sufferfest' charming was the extremely low production value. It was all shaky handheld footage from Cedar.
Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.
Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.
There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.
The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.
Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.
That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.
Live in the moment and make the most of every single hour that you're alive. Like it says on the sign outside the drop zone in front of the school: No Idling.
I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like that's worked up until now.
If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’
I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.
There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.
The diet for climbing all the time isn't really different from the diet for living. It's not like cardio sports where you're burning a bajillion calories every day.
Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either.
No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
I like to think that today is the best day of my life and tomorrow will be the next best day of my life. And if you think that way, you're living for the beauty of today.
Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.
Climbing is definitely very much strength-to-weight ratio. At the same time, I've never dieted or restricted calories. You're just sort of mindful about not getting plump.