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Post-Pandemic Growth & Resilience
When we’re going through a tough time in life, we often want it to just stop and be finished. None of us are super-human, so we get tired, cranky, and overwhelmed. If the challenging situation has been long, serious, or deadly,...
The Life of a Book Called “The Ledge”
It took me nineteen years to write The Ledge. No, I didn’t scratch out twelve words daily for 6,935 days. But I thought about this story every day. You see, my best buddy, Mike Price, died on June 21, 1992. He died while we were climbing Mount Rainier. On our descent...
RESILIENCE FOR HOSPITALS FACING UNCERTAINTY
You know the path ahead will be difficult and maybe precarious. That probably doesn’t worry you much because you and your teammates have overcome tough problems before. What is bothersome though, is the uncertainty. That’s often what keeps us up at night. How big...
Climbing Toward Big Goals
It’s exhilarating to think about big goals and empowering to reach them. The best rewards from pursuing big goals do not usually happen during some glorious moment when standing in the sunshine. The most significant rewards come as you’re climbing toward your big...
One Step, Then Another
Taking one small step, and then another. It's how everything gets done. Building a brick wall, earning your degree, climbing a mountain. One step, then another. The concept is super simple, but the execution can be tough. You can get discouraged by external criticism...
EVEREST RESILIENCE: Part 7 – Begin Recovery
On April 27th, the upper camps of Everest were evacuated. Rocks had ceased falling and medical emergencies had subsided since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake had rattled base camp 48 hours earlier. But, the trauma across Nepal was still growing. Lives lost, homes...
EVEREST RESILIENCE: Part 6 – Escape from Camp 1
Here’s an exhilarating and scary video of our helicopter escape from Camp 1 on Everest, two days after the massive earthquake in Nepal on April 25, 2015. Get in and hang on!
EVEREST RESILIENCE: Part 5 – Calm Leadership
Some 24 hours after the massive earthquake in Nepal, we got hit with a huge aftershock. The entire Khumbu Glacier beneath our tent slid back and forth several inches. The 6.5 magnitude tremor rattled the fragile ice we were living on at Everest Camp 1. Just as they...
EVEREST RESILIENCE: Part 4 – Stop & Think
We huddled in our tent at Camp 1 just twenty-five minutes after the earthquake stopped. Because the avalanches had finally ceased pouring off the shoulder of Everest, the noisy powder blasts had quieted. The air was filled with urgent chatter gushing from the radio in...
EVEREST RESILIENCE: Part 3 – Staying Calm
The violent earthquake shaking Mount Everest had stopped. Converging avalanches had sputtered out before they could overrun us at Camp 1. Everything went momentarily still. Then, people scrambled back to their tents to check on each other. My tentmate Bart and I were...