My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know what my dad saw in me - I was a geeky kid - but he had that philosophy: prepare the kid for the road, not the road for the kid.

I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

I am at a climbing area called the Wendenstock in Switzerland. This area has some of the best quality multi-pitch climbing I have seen on limestone. There is about a two-hour approach on one of the steepest grass slopes I have ever seen. The setting is amazing.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.

Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.