Climbing Nanga Parbat’s Rupal Face: Steve House’s fifteen year quest and a milestone in alpinism. Falling from Mount Temple: Steve House nearly dies and in recovery, discovers a new perspective.

Steve begins by taking his audience with him up the tallest mountain wall in the world: Nanga Parbat’s Rupal Face. In 2005 Steve and Vince Anderson spent six days ascending this difficult four-thousand-meter wall; arriving at the summit an hour before sunset on their sixth continuous day of climbing. Six months later Steve and Vince were awarded the Piolet d’Or. Steve lets the audience in on the doubts which followed his greatest success:  Is man the sum of his accomplishments? What is the value of success? Why risk? And how this big success caused him to fear his next performance.

Steve then brings the audience to the dark and seldom-climbed Mount Temple in Canada where in March 2010 a hold broke while he was leading a climb of the north face. The resulting 25 meter fall left him laying on a snow-ledge with severe life-threatening injuries. With only a few hours to live he was bravely rescued by helicopter and flown to the hospital in Calgary, Alberta.

From the summit of one of the greatest climbs ever accomplished, to a hospital bed in Canada, and back to being among the top climbers in history, Steve shares his hard-won lessons. Not least of which is that the best share a focus on process, not achievement. In climbing, the moment your mind wanders from the task at hand, is the moment you fall.