I respect Everest very much.

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

I respect Everest very much.

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.