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

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

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

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

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

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.

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.