| From: | Canada 🇨🇦 |
| Date of birth: | 18th May 1958 |
| Age: | 67 years old |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hardest Trad (Worked): | E7 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight): | E8 |
| Notable Partnerships | |
| Dave Schultz | |
Cameron Burns: Why do you go climbing? What's your motivation?
I don't think there really a concrete definition of motivation. It’s just fun. Sometimes I've woken up hours before dawn and Just have to go climbing - and I'll go out and climb all day long. What's most important to me is tne really big day when I can't help but go out climbing. On a big soloing day, I often find myself trying not to run up to the base of the cliff, but then I’ll just take off running up to the base of the cliff. I remember reading in Herman Buhl's book, Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage about how he was driven to do stuff and he didn’t really know why. I don’t have concrete goals in that if I do such and such then I'll be able to climb Everest or if I do this and this and this, then I'll be able to climb 5.14. The things I’m most pleased with are days when I've really pushed hard and seen how far I can go. [1]
[1] Mountain 143 (1992), page 19 /library/11327/mountain-143