Part of what keeps us climbers moving is dreaming about what doesn’t yet exist, what hasn’t already happened.

The harder you climb, the more people look up to you.

Patience may not be a word you associate with rock climbing.

Today is the type of day when you think you’ll do well.

Most climbers (myself included) let go of the holds long before they have met their physical limit.

When I was a freshman in college, eager to shake off the lessons of the small town ballet school that first trained me, I wanted to dance like the cool kids in the basement bar of my dorm.