Reflections On Everest

After two years of relentless stress and hard work, trying to pull together an expedition that always seemed to teeter on the brink of disaster, two weeks of frantic last-minute preparations, a month of acclimatizing in the Khumbu Valley, and only three weeks from a summit attempt, it was over. Read more here.

Kenya: My Eyes Open, Part 2

For many years I've been trying to make sense of why my life has unfolded the way it has. I'm aware that I'm searching for a sense of destiny, for a feeling that fate has contrived to bring me to this point in life. Intellectually-speaking, I know that that is impossible; things happen without rhyme or reason. Read more here.