When I was 35, I climbed Mount Hood in Oregon all by myself in sandals and summited it. On my way back down, the mountain opened and swallowed me. I fell through the glacier into a crevasse 40 feet down. It took me 4 hours to crawl out inch by inch with no harness in complete darkness. <br> <br>While I was freezing to death, I thought about quitting approximately 10,000 times. (And that’s a lowball estimate.) But despite the extremely cold temperatures, bleak outlook, no cell phone signal, men