At the age of 19, Steve House was a porter on Nanga Parbat. For the next 15years, he was obsessed with it, until he climbed the previously unclimbed Rupal Face. After that, his life had lost its focus. He seemingly drifts now, in and out of other peoples obsessions.
An objective like that, would seem to require an obsession to "git r done". Otherwise, it's just not going to happen.