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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself. — 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 Image
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
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 Image
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
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 Image
