By Tyler Tervooren
The fastest way to succeed at something difficult is to find someone who’s already done it and get them to share all their secrets. For almost every challenge on my quest for 1%, there’s at least one person behind the scenes that I’m tapping for their wisdom. Sometimes it’s a friend, sometimes it’s a mentor, and sometimes it’s even you, my readers.
When I read in my local paper that someone in my neck of the woods had just completed one of my biggest goals, a trek up all of the Seven Summits, I had to get a hold of him.
Enter Steve Giesecke.
Earlier this year Steve reached the peak of Mt. Vinson in Antarctica, completing a 20-year journey that fewer than 300 people have ever finished. That’s a long time to chase a goal, but when you find one that brings... More...
