Meru
My mom had made me promise fairly early on... "If you are going to
make this your life, you need to promise me one thing. You have to
promise me that you'll not die before me".
And when I was on climbs and on expeditions, I would get to a
certain point and I would say, "Okay, how close am I willing to go
to potentially break that promise?"
So, after my mom died, when the climbing started to get into that
place, I remember the moment like being ... "Well, I can go for it
right now."