“Some Stories is an inspiring retrospective on Yvon Chouinard’s extraordinary life. Be forewarned, however: This book might make you think twice about what you’re doing with your own life. Yvon is exalted as a businessman, adventurer, and environmental activist. But what I admire most is his penchant for bucking the herd. If the Swedes awarded a Nobel Prize for being an iconoclast, Chouinard would win it hands down.” —Jon Krakauer

“Yvon Chouinard’s life of mountaineering, surfing and angling awakened his responsibility to the natural world, a profound duty he has accepted with exemplary commitment. His success in business has served not only his fight on behalf of the earth but his commitment to fairness down to the lives of people who supply his company’s materials, and the health of lands where they are produced. I know of no better example than Chouinard of what entrepreneurial Americans do best combined with our original, charitable and democratic impulses—themselves as endangered as the planet itself. Chouinard’s book displays his excellent, idiosyncratic writing—direct and unbeholden to customary or unexamined thinking. Free of sermonizing, it is the best possible result of a life of thoughtful action.” —Thomas McGuane

“I’ve climbed mountains with Yvon; trekked to Lo Montane; backcountry skied; kayaked through the Russian wilderness; bushwhacked in Patagonia; fished for salmon, permit, bones, trout; shot upland birds; consumed lots of great food and wine. In his company I’ve often been terrified but always entertained and never bored. In my long, lucky life I count our friendship as an enduring blessing.” —Tom Brokaw