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… — 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 glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy… — 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 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
