It's Not An Adventure Until Something Goes

You Have A Whole Life In The Outdoors, You Realize You Have A Sense Of Responsibility To Protect These Wild Places.

I Live For The Moment. I'm Basically A Buddhist-type Person. I'm Just Here Right Now, And I Don't Think About What's Going To Happen A Hundred Years From Now. I Try To Concentrate On What's Going On Right Now. 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.

Climbing For Speed Records Will Probably Become More Popular, A Mania Which Has Just Begun. Climbers Climb Not Just To See How Fast And Efficiently They Can Do It, But Far Worse, To See How Much Faster And More Efficiently They Are Than A Party Which Did The Same Climb A Few Days Before. The Climb Becomes Secondary, No More Important Than A Racetrack. Man Is Pitted Against Man.

Personally, I Would Rather Climb In The High Mountains. I Have Always Abhorred The Tremendous Heat, The Dirt-filled Cracks, The Ant-covered Foul-smelling Trees And Bushes Which Cover The Cliffs, The Filth And Noise Of Camp 4 (the Climbers' Campground), And Worst Of All, The Multitudes Of Tourists Which Abound During The Weekends And Summer Months.

It's Okay To Be Eccentric If You're Rich; Otherwise You're Just Crazy.