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.

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

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.

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.

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

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