He doesn’t talk about resilience. He goes and finds it.
Hunted caribou with Inuit guides in the high Arctic — temperatures and terrain that don’t forgive mistakes.
Survival deep in the Amazon, far from anything resembling rescue.
Tracked wild silverback gorillas on foot through the mountain forest.
Trekked the hottest place in North America — solo.
Subzero solo snowshoe expeditions into the backcountry.
Built SweetWater Ranch by hand — an off-grid log cabin retreat at the top of a mountain.
He also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, earned under Grandmaster Jung Kim. The point of all of it isn’t the bucket list. It’s that the ideas Terry teaches — about goals, fear, and refusing to quit — were pressure-tested somewhere the stakes were real before they ever reached a stage.
“It’s hard” merely means “It’s possible.”
— Terry L. Fossum
Dispatches from the field.
From time to time, Terry shares reflections and dispatches from his work and his travels with a private list of readers. You are welcome to join them.