At Patagonia, Making A Profit

The Secret To Happiness Is To Be Working At Your Passion. If You Want To Be Miserable, Lead A Desperate Life Like Everybody Else Where They Drag Their Asses To Work Everyday Because They Hate Their Job.

Is Climbing, As A Passion And As A Sport, Better Off Now Than It Was In The Past? We Can Do Harder Climbs Now In Faster Times - Techniques Are More Refined And Equipement More Sophisticated - But Are We Really Any Better Off?

You Can Solo-climb Everest Without Using Oxygen Or You Can Pay Guides And Sherpas To Carry Your Loads, Put Ladders Across Crevasses, Lay In 6,000 Feet Of Fixed Ropes, And Have One Sherpa Pulling You And Another Pushing You. ... The Goal Of Climbing Big, Dangerous Mountains Should Be To Attain Some Sort Of Spiritual And Personal Growth, But This Won't Happen If You Compromise Away The Entire Process.

True Adventure Begins When Everything Goes Wrong.

The More You Know, The Less You Need.