The following commentary is documented in the film "180° South":

“In response to people saying you can’t go back, I say: well, what happens if you GET TO THE CLIFF and you take one step forward? Or do you do a 180 degree turn and take one step forward? Which way are you going? Which is progress? ”
— Doug Tompkins, Co-Founder of The North Face
“The solution may be for a lot of the world’s problems is...to TURN AROUND and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work.”
— Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia and Black Diamond Equipment

Glacier near the summit of South Sister, Central Oregon Cascades, September, 2009