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

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Climbing is what I do.

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

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.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?