It started on a bookshelf. Tim pulled down a worn copy of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, and by the time he turned the last page, the course of his life had quietly changed. He made a vow that day: he would climb Everest.
He gave up his apartment. He booked a one-way ticket to Nepal. What followed was not a vacation but a transformation, four years of training among the Sherpas in the Himalayas, sleeping at altitude, learning the mountain on its own terms, and tempering his body and mind at a Muay Thai camp in the heat of Thailand.
He would go on to summit Everest twice. One of those climbs was filmed by the Discovery Channel for Everest: Beyond the Limit, a record of what becomes possible when a single decision is followed all the way to the top of the world.
The same strength he found on that mountain is the strength he now helps wounded veterans rediscover in themselves.
