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Running in Beijing

It sounded like a good idea at the time.  Immediately after getting off of two international flights to Beijing, go straight to a friend’s house and run 12-17k.  In the dark. Sweltering heat.  With dust and pollution. Combined with jet lag and lack of sleep.  How wrong could that be?
After de-boarding from my Korea Airlines [...]

Getting to be part of the Team

I’ve written a lot about climbing and running (well, that is this site ) and about leadership and teamwork – but not so much on what it takes to be part of the team.

During the past few weeks, I have been interviewing candidates to be part of our work team and I started thinking [...]

Brotherhood of the Rope

I’m finishing the book High Exposure by David Brashears, the famous IMAX filmmaker and mountaineer (five Everest summits).
The following photo is from his website and rights:

What is interesting is to read about the Everest disaster of May 10, 1996 from his view, where having read it from Jon Krakauer’s point of view in Into Thin [...]

On Simplicity

Sometimes, just sometimes, the right answer is the simplest one.
I had two incidents today, both very unrelated.
First, I have been having trouble with my new flat-screen TV since buying it several weeks ago.  The color has been totally off.  The more I adjusted the red and green, brightness, sharpness, tint etc., the worse it got [...]