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...
On one occasion, after a particularly long spell away from home, I got Shara to fly into the mountains we were filming in.Bring the boys, my love, I miss you.That night, I hitched a lift with the crew...
Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.
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...
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...
Ed Amies, one of my oldest and closest friends, told my simply that: So often, God’s callings have a birth, a death, and then a resurrection.I had had the birth, and had got stuck into Selection; I ha...
Changing the words you use will help you change your attitude to the situation you’re in and the life you live.Do you hear that?
My granny Patsie Fisher
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...
Slowly my movement returned and the pain lessened, until, by the time I left the center some eight months after the accident, I really was on the mend.I knew I was getting better when I sneaked out on...
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...
Hey! Monkey! Over here!’ one of the tourists called. The reverent atmosphere burst like a balloon. The orang-utan paused and looked back at them. Her face was long and grave, as if wondering how anyon...
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
Write this on your bathroom mirror:
The sun was warm on my face. I knew we were safe at last.The vast bottle of Champagne, that had sat like some Buddha at base camp for three months, was ceremoniously produced. It took four of us almos...
Tentative holds no power.
Sedmkrát spadni, osmkrát se zvedni.
Highlights of the Brunel featured the likes of Mr. Iraci, our landlord, coming around and being greeted by myself, stark naked, painting cartoons on my bedroom wall to liven the place up a bit; or Edd...