Filming typically takes a bit away from the climbing experience, since you have to stop all the time and shoot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Climbing is what I do.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.
You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.
I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.