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

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

Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

Beauty is the door to another world.

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

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.

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.