When did all this craziness become my world?It’s as if--almost accidentally--this madness has become my life. And don’t get me wrong--I love it all.The game, though, now, is to hang on to that life. E...
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved...
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
These made Trucker and me look back on the summer Selection days as quite balmy and pleasant! It is strange how accustomed you become to hardship, and how what once seemed horrific can soon become mun...
He had forgotten the golden rule of cold, which the DS had told us over and over: ‘Don’t let yourself get cold. Act early, while you still have your senses and mobility. Add a layer, make shelter, get...
Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other.You may not be the fastest, the fittest, the cleverest or the strongest, but there’s nothing to stop you from being the most en...
So suddenly here we are.Six years on.I genuinely never believed we would film more than six episodes of , let alone six seasons.I mean, where has the time gone?I also really had no idea quite how many...
Instead, finding a faith should help you to be freer, more full of life, more filled with joy, peace and love than you would ever imagine. And those qualities, in abundance, will only make you stronge...
Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith – and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith that has fol...
A good packer is a tough packer. So be shrewd and be robust: if it isn’t going to help you, leave it behind, throw it out. Stay light.We change our beliefs and attitudes inch by inch in the small, eve...
You see, Bobby knew that when it gets hard we all have two responses to choose from: to moan, or to put our heads down, smile and get on with it.Remember: no one likes a moaner.Wouldn’t we all rather...
Whenever I got out of bed I had to wear a big metal brace that was strapped around me.I felt like an invalid. I was an invalid. This was crazy.As it was, I had done the worst of both worlds: I had nei...
Several months earlier Shara and I had bought a home together. Well, to be more accurate it was a barge, moored on the Thames in central London.Neil had spotted it for us, and we looked around it stra...
I was in and out of the hospital almost daily from then on.They X-rayed, poked, and prodded me, and then they did it again for good measure.
I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
I knew that this was my chance to show both Henry and Neil that I was able to look after myself and climb well at high altitude.After all, talk is cheap when you are safely tucked up back in London.It...
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
The South Col is a vast, rocky area, maybe the size of four football pitches, strewn with the remnants of old expeditions.It was here in 1996, in the fury of the storm, that men and women had struggle...
So much happened, though, in our early, prechildren days, that served to turn our life around irretrievably.Much of it came from small, serendipitous, unlikely turns of events--like driving for many h...
One of the other questions I often got asked when we returned home was: Did you find God on the mountain? The real answer is you don’t have to climb a big mountain to find faith.It’s simpler than that...