Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.

Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness of mental and believing that you are worth as much as the public image.

Beauty is the door to another world.

The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.