Steph,  I just read High Infatuation. It came to me at the perfect time. I have climbed since I was 13 and always dreamed of dropping everything else to pursue that passion, but it never seemed possible. When I moved to Flagstaff, AZ from Arkansas for college I decided that it was time time to [...]

Steph! My name is Jared — hello from Connecticut!  I’m writing to you after feeling inspired by a dream, your book, and all of the people who have written to you in the past. My dream involved us climbing and flying wing-suits.  It was one of the coolest and most satisfying dreams I have ever had.  [...]

A little over a year ago, just before my birthday, I was seized with the urge to free solo Jah Man on Sister Superior and base jump off it. In 2008, I free soloed the North Face of Castleton and jumped off the top, and it remains one of my favorite adventures of all time. [...]

Hey Steph, Thank for reminding me that life isn’t just about a 9-6 job, bank balance and all the things in this category. There’s so much more to it. It makes me realize, you can conquer life .. It is not the other way around. Every time you update your facebook photo album doing a [...]

I first saw “High Infatuation” in a used book store, while looking for a Costa Rica travel book. I honestly thought it was going to be about doing drugs from the title. I might have even laughed a little about the idea of a book about doing drugs. Nonetheless, I picked it up and I’m [...]

Dear Steph, First off, I would like to thank you for your awesome site. It’s so great that people can connect with you, get advice, and learn. I recently joined the Air Force and I play in one of the regional bands. It has been my dream job for quite a while, I mean, my [...]

Steph! Last Friday, three friends and I made the 4 1/2 hour commute from our college town in Ashland, Oregon to Portland to camp out on the side walk of P-Town for the REI Garage sale… otherwise referred to as “Christmas in October”. For the first half hour of the drive I was so consumed [...]

Hi Steph, I cannot express how amazing you are and how fond I am of you! Not only because you are very precise and talented, but also because there is something so peacefull on you and on your art of rock climbing. You make it things appear easy! And it always looks like you are [...]

Dear Steph, I wrote to you last year after I discovered climbing, and shared my blog post “What I love about Climbing”. I was so encouraged by your reply, and happy that meditation is something that has made an impression upon you too. Well, since last year, things have moved on…I continued to climb hard [...]

Hi Steph, I bought your book last year, I love it and often read it as a source of inspiration. I’m a climber and an artist, I draw really massive scale landscapes averaging about 2 metres wide. I’m inspired by being outside in beautiful places and i love how rock climbing can feed into my [...]