When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom is a… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was always something… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
