MountainZone.com: And you actually do a fair amount of public speaking now?

Weathers: At some level, I was always a storyteller, and I didn't really have a story. And then, one of the good byproducts of an experience like this is that I wind up with a really good story, and I enjoy doing it. And it also satisfies what I would call probably 'survivor's obligation.'

I never had any grand sense of survival's guilt, because frankly I was so beat up that the likelihood that I could do a whole heck of a lot for somebody was not real. But when you come back, both in my personal case and I've seen it in a bunch of folks that have gone through experiences like this, you really have a strong sense that you want to do something that somehow mitigates or makes better what otherwise is just a horrible experience. And so by speaking to folks, and trying to maybe a good example of a bad example, if nothing else, then you can provide people an opportunity to maybe do a little better. They always tell you that you're supposed to learn from your mistakes? No, you're supposed to learn from somebody else's mistakes. It's a whole lot less painful.