I enjoy seeing how resilient the body can be. Still, his years as an EMT also make him painfully aware of the body's fragility. His most recent mountaineering expedition offers a telling example of the ways in which Del Rosso struggles with that proverbial envelope. It's a team effort and an individual effort. You might as well be alone, but you know there's someone else on the other end of the rope.
Climbers call it the art of suffering.
Del Rosso also has been known to experience an adrenaline rush on the job when he's part of a space shuttle command team at Mission Control in Houston. When things happen that you don't expect, that's the exciting part because it's not in the books. You dread and anticipate those calls from the support operations folks. It's a personal challenge to go figure things out. Such moments aren't the only rewards Del Rosso finds in his job, however.