The Goal Of Climbing Big, Dangerous Mountains

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.

While Our Managers Debated What Steps To Take To Address The Sales And Cash-flow Crisis, I Began To Lead Week-long Employee Seminars In What We Called Philosophies. We'd Take A Busload At A Time To Places Like Yosemite Or The Marin Headlands Above San Francisco, Camp Out, And Gather Under The Trees To Talk. The Goal Was To Teach Every Employee In The Company Our Business And Environmental Ethics And Values.

I Drive Old Cars, All My Patagonia Clothes Are Years And Years Old, I Hardly Have Anything New. I Try To Lead A Very Simple Life. I Am Not A Consumer Of Anything. And I Much Prefer Sleeping On Somebody's Floor Than In A Motel Room.

Is Climbing, As A Passion And As A Sport, Better Off Now Than It Was In The Past? We Can Do Harder Climbs Now In Faster Times - Techniques Are More Refined And Equipement More Sophisticated - But Are We Really Any Better Off?

The More I Make The More I Can Give Away.