The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.

Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.