Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 7 minutes ago
Climbing a mountain is a lot like an artist’s life.
There’s the slow start.
The breathlessness.
The doubt halfway up.
The temptation to mythologize the past and underestimate the present.
This video was filmed during a sunrise climb of Camelback Mountain in the middle of a rebuild — creatively, physically, spiritually.
A rebuild isn’t heroic.
It’s often quiet.
Gritty.
Uneven.
The mind plays tricks during this phase, romanticizing the recent past to make the current effort feel unworthy. But the truth is simpler: if it feels hard right now, that’s what it felt like then too. You just forgot.
Climb.
Climbing a mountain is a lot like an artist’s life.
There’s the slow start.
The breathlessness.
The doubt halfway up.
The temptation to mythologize the past and underestimate the present.
This video was filmed during a sunrise climb of Camelback Mountain in the middle of a rebuild — creatively, physically, spiritually.
A rebuild isn’t heroic.
It’s often quiet.
Gritty.
Uneven.
The mind plays tricks during this phase, romanticizing the recent past to make the current effort feel unworthy. But the truth is simpler: if it feels hard right now, that’s what it felt like then too. You just forgot.
Climb.
