I had never climbed for people's admiration, I had always climbed because I was half-decent at it——and now I had an avenue, through Everest, to explore that talent further.
出自：
《Mud，Sweat and Tears》
- When written in chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- So much of my identity was in the physical.
- So that was Eton for me, and I look back now with a great sense of gratitude: gratitude that I got to have such a great education.
The notion that it is best to be the sort of person who messes about and plays the fool but who, when it really matters, is tough to the core. It favours the individual.