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

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.

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

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.

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.

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

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