Academy of Achievement entry

TIME : 'The Greatest Adventures of All Time - The Race to the Pole' (an interview)

I liked these men very much when I first met them on the mountain nearly a half-century ago, but I came to admire them far more in the years that followed. I t…

The real point of mountain climbing, as of most hard sports, is that it voluntarily tests the human spirit against the fiercest odds, not that it achieves anyt…

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

'Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!'