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I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

Climbing is what I do.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

The types of climbing that I choose to do I'm good at justifying. I do really try and pick things that I'm going to live through. I don't want to die, and I'm relatively cautious. I play with that line all the time. I want things that are very exciting, so much so that they can feel almost spiritual.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.