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

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

Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

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

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

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.