The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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The loss of Conrad.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 March 2025 source ↗
I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
I would care less about what people think.
I would do more weightlifting than aerobics. Strong is better than skinny.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
It’s my snoring that keeps Loreto awake!
When I was climbing I was absolutely happy. I can use a climbing wall, but that’s not the same as real climbing.
I was a huge daydreamer and imagined myself as a successful general leading his troops into battle.
Becoming more physically active.
I left the army and got a job with Unilever in Northern Ireland. They were very strict and you had to have a hat, and when you went into a shop you had to raise your hat to the shopkeeper and then sell your wares. I was selling margarine.
Everest the hard way in 1975: leading the expedition that succeeded where so many people had tried and failed. That was the most complex mountaineering challenge I ever faced. I spent hours at night in a little tent thinking about what the next problem would be and how to solve it.
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