I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide..

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?.

Climbing is what I do..

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten th….

Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short t….

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not….

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen..

I respect Everest very much..

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here..

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year..

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure ….

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than t….

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop….

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team..

Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past,….

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion..

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit..