The Importance of Trusting Yourself

"I didn't believe anything would happen. The only way that one can enter into this kind of situation is trusting yourself and believing in yourself," he says. "Every time, and look, I know nothing about climbing. I've been up some hills, but that's the way I've done it." In his day, a wooden shaft with a bird's beak was used to chip holes in ice. These days they have bird beaks looking picks and the handles are curved.