A writer's round-about journey to the next rung of the ladder.

Prisoners for life, still behind bars twenty-eight years after I took them up Everest.

Go up, or go down? Looking back on a decision made four decades ago.

A story about receiving inspiration, using it, then giving it back.

If we’re lucky, we live long enough to hear our bodies tell us we’re past our best. It doesn’t happen overnight — even if recognition of...

Steve Bell reflects on a 300ft fall in the French Alps forty-five years ago. The fall gave him plenty of time to think.

God's waiting room is not a place, it's an attitude of mind.

A story of loss, karma, and the whisper of superstition.

The barber who crafts the outside of heads while taking care of the inside.

The 25th anniversary of completing the Seven Summits, and the anniversary of a death that could have been prevented.