What Does It Take — for You — to Begin?

A story of survival, collapse, and courage — inviting you to step forward, take responsibility, and become part of what comes next.

Let me tell you a story.

In the late autumn of 1970s Patagonia, when the winds begin to taste like winter and the southern sky closes in, two young climbers set out to summit Mount Fitz Roy — a mountain as fierce as it is majestic. You don’t climb Fitz Roy casually. You ask permission. And that season, permission was tentative.

One of those climbers was my friend, Peta. In his early twenties at the time, filled with the unshakeable confidence youth brings, he and his partner decided to take their chance. A narrow weather window opened. They stepped through it.

But as anyone who has walked the edge of the world knows, the weather in the southern Andes is not a forecast — it’s a force.

After reaching the base of Fitz Roy, they began climbing the vertical grey wall — an unforgiving slab of stone that rises like a blade into the sky. Every move was exposed. Every grip was cold.