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.

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

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.

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

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.

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