“You don’t have to be a hero to accomplish great things. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” Edmund Hillary April 6, 1967 – Gulf of Tonkin – North Vietnam: Doug Hegdahl went up on the deck of the U.S.S. Canberra...
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson January 11, 2012 – Mt. Kilimanjaro – Tanzania, Africa: 25-year-old Kyle Maynard lay in his tent at 6,400 feet and cried. His shoulders ached so badly he...
“Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.” Tim McGraw 1959 – Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia: The headaches and fatigue had persisted for several months. Anthony Burgess dismissed it as a mysterious tropical illness, but he finally agreed to...
“How it is, isn’t how it has to be, it is simply how it is right now. Your possibilities are as limitless as your dreams.” James Richardson 1985 – Pensacola, Florida: At midnight, 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber sat alone in the bus station....
The Last Man in the Water “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine January 13, 1982 – Washington D.C.: There are not many Americans who remember the name...
“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.” Denis Waitley July 1972 – Harvard University – Boston, Massachusetts: It was a sweltering mid-July day with the temperature...
