Post tagged with Courage

  • Mountain Climbing, Extreme Skiing, and the Art of Losing Everything, Part 3

    April 23rd, 200901:10 PM ET
    By David Sanford
    In Part 2, I mentioned that one false move while I was glissading would have meant almost instant death. It certainly wasn't the first time I could have died on the alpine slopes. When I was sixteen, my dad, brother and I decided to climb the western slope of Glacier Peak. It was our first climb up this particular mountain, but for three of our fr...

  • Mountain Climbing, Extreme Skiing, and the Art of Losing Everything, Part 2

    April 22nd, 200909:50 PM ET
    By David Sanford
    In Part 1, I mentioned that I see myself as a fairly courageous person. The hard part for me is separating courage from recklessness. In my new book, If God Disappears, I talk about my own adventures in extreme skiing or glissading. What follows is an abridged version of what I wrote... As a young man, I loved to hike through the Cascades and Oly...

  • Mountain Climbing, Extreme Skiing, and the Art of Losing Everything, Part 1

    April 22nd, 200912:05 PM ET
    By David Sanford
    Don't ask me how I talked my wife, Renée, into watching one of the newest extreme sports movies. She's a brave soul. Unless you're in the habit of spending Christmas or New Year's in New York or Los Angeles, you probably didn't catch the limited theatrical release of Steep: Without Risk... There Is No Adventure. To say the least, I would have lo...
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