Ed Viesturs Quotes

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.