Occupation: Mountaineer Birth: September 20, 1947
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all ….
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life..
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be sel….
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..
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated..
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life..
Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us..
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 you….
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow….
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom..
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was always something that at the mom….
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet ….
Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom is a creation..
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions..
Beauty is the door to another world..
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.
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their myste….
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restric….
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self..
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 me….