Hello From Overseas
- April 2012
- Hi Steph Simple Living Climb Travel
Steph,
My name is Lenny and I am a former Marine and I live in Alaska.
I am writing this to you as I am currently over seas. I wanted to tell you that I have not read your book, watched your video clip, or have met you in person. But from your web page, I have learned a lot and find you very interesting. The life that you live is a dream. I believe all of us would love to have your lifestyle. I am so interested in what drives you to climb. Something about the way everyone talks about you grabbed my attention. It seems that you have touched a lot of people emotionally and they find some sort of peace from your journeys. I am going to order your book and find out how you do it! 🙂 (Climbing,life style etc)
Thank you for a very interesting read! I enclosed a few pictures of me climbing in Portage glacier (Byron side) in Alaska. Just so you can see a face 🙂
Take care,
-Lenny
Hi Lenny,
Thanks for writing and for your thoughts about finding peace in journeys. I think that is really the reason for doing anything, and the best thing about climbing is that it teaches us to strip down, to learn the simplest (and easiest) way to do things, to always figure out what is the least needed. For me, that is the best thing climbing has to teach. I really believe that a simple life and a simple approach is the way to contentment. So for me, climbing is the path that has continuously led me to things like practicing yoga and meditation, being vegan, running, base jumping–all things that are very basic and simplistic, and mainly ask you to spend a lot of time inside your own head. I think another thing climbing has taught me is to value freedom above anything else, and to be curious and open to everything, and also to arrange my life so I have the ability to walk through doors when they open–all of which goes back again to living simply.
Anyway, I hope you like the book, and thanks for the letter and the photos!
🙂 Steph
