When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.
Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
Climbing is what I do.
I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.
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.
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.
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.