If Bear were stranded on a desert island he would want the following ten books with him:
1. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me, by Josef M. Bauer
2. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, by Dean King
3. What's So Amazing About Grace? , by Philip Yancey
4. Messy Spirituality, by Mike Yaconelli
5. The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom
6. The Cross and the Switchblade, by David Wilkerson
7. Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
8. Vanya: A True Story, by Myrna Grant
9. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft, by Thor Heyerdahl
10. Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer
Bear: (on climbing Mt. Everest) I remember collapsing to my knees and just crying and crying inside my mask as all those emotions from so long began to flow. Neil and myself, with our oxygen off, just hugged. It is an extraordinary place and you see the curvature of the earth at the edges and at 7:22 am we watched as the dawn came up over all the land of Tibet 20,000 feet below.
Bear: I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.