It never hurts to ask -- The beating on Mount Elbert -- The quandary of dreaming -- Finding my pace on Mount Quandary -- Time : love's allegory -- Freedom to fail -- A much-loved nothing -- Humility is for losers -- On false summits -- Freedom to question -- How do you celebrate discipline? -- Living in the moment on Longs Peak -- Sometimes the dragons win -- Accepting things I cannot change -- Rising and falling to assumptions -- What's in a name? (the tale of Skippy and Pete) -- Choices on the Continental Divide -- Electric air on Holy Cross -- Beauty beyond imagination -- Walking each other home -- Afterword: Lessons from the final fourteener.
