![]() ![]() ![]() "Strangely, I survived 20 years after my predicted expiration date," Twight writes on the website for Gym Jones, a training center he and his wife founded after he retired from climbing in 2000. "I made life or death decisions like I was choosing between brands of beer."īut then, something happened-or didn't happen. "I am willing to cut it all away in order to have my way, to live how I want, and for only as long as I want," he writes in his memoir Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber. ![]() Instead, he built his reputation by targeting routes which other climbers deemed impossible or suicidal, and he conquered them quickly with minimal equipment. Waiting at home for this death to find him wasn't Twight's style, though. It was an arbitrary number, he admits today, but as a world-class mountain climber, he had plenty of time shivering in tents and clinging to exposed rockfaces to imagine doom lurking just over the horizon. As a young man, Mark Twight was convinced that his life would end at age 26. ![]()
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