Thoughts about our mountains while sitting on a bristlecone high in the Colorado Rockies.
Thoughts about our mountains while sitting on a bristlecone high in the Colorado Rockies.
When things seem hopeless - as they often do now - it is time more than ever to embrace hope, embrace the risk it entails, and gather its energy to drive us forward into the unknown.
The drops fell rhythmically, metronomically, glassy orbs of exquisite beauty slipping into an icy abyss. I was transfixed, hypnotized by the simplicity, the sublimity, the entrancing meditation and profound power of it all, knowing these drops began as vapor carried from distant lands, fell as snow, melted, and would follow me and my companions some 1,600 miles to the Bay of Bengal, there to be heated, evaporated, condensed, and fall once more on yet another far away place.
Trusting our instinct, our intuition, is critical in decision making, especially when we don't have the luxury of long-term analysis.
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Read MoreThis spring on the slopes of Mount Everest a timely (and, in my opinion, long overdue) documentary will be created: Super Sherpas. Focusing primarily on two amazing Sherpa climbers, Apa and Lhakpa Gelu, the film will document their ascent of Everest via the traditional Southeast Ridge Route. For Apa Sherpa (pictured below in 2002 at […]
Recently, Fortune Magazine's online section featured a Q&A with author (and climber) Jim Collins, who penned the great books Built to Last and Good to Great. The first question to Collins asked what primary advice he would give to a beginning entrepreneur. Collins' response was both simple and profound: Starting a company is like scaling […]
Would you eat 68 year old biscuits? Probably not, but if you're hungry enough and happen to be high on Mount Everest, I know where some are.
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