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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
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 of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.
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.
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.
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 your freedom.
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines ... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
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.
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.
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.
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.
