Adventure With Children: Pursuing Difficult But Attainable Targets

Andy Kirkpatrick is an adventurer, but he also has a daughter who he cares very much about. So, he chooses his adventures wisely. He explains that pursuing Everest's summit and the South Pole are too expensive and unpredictable, but he is interested in pushing the boundaries of what he considers possible. He skied across Greenland with a paraplegic partner, as well as climbed El Capitan in Yosemite National Park with his 13-year old daughter and a blind climber. He responds to critics of his daughter climbing El Capitan with him by saying: "I'd be crazy not to climb El Capitan with my daughter," because of the confidence boost and focus it gives her in her everyday life. He did say that she cried while on the wall -- because she dropped her iPod.