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.
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… - Wojciech Kurtyka
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…
- Wojciech Kurtyka
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 - Wojciech Kurtyka
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
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self. - Wojciech Kurtyka
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restric… - Wojciech Kurtyka
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restric…
Beauty is the door to another world. - Wojciech Kurtyka
Beauty is the door to another world.
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet … - Wojciech Kurtyka
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet …
Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself. - Wojciech Kurtyka
Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions. - Wojciech Kurtyka
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
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… - Wojciech Kurtyka
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…
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