by Jim Davidson | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog, I Shouldn't Be Alive, 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...
by Jim Davidson | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog, Resilience
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...
by Jim Davidson | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog, Lessons, Resilience
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...
by Jim Davidson | Oct 6, 2016 | Everest17, Lessons, Speaking of Adventure
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...
by Jim Davidson | Dec 10, 2015 | Everest 2015, Uncategorized
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...