Anatoli Boukreev

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

— Anatoli Boukreev

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if…

— Anatoli Boukreev

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that…

— Anatoli Boukreev

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

— Anatoli Boukreev

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

— Anatoli Boukreev

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they…

— Anatoli Boukreev

Climbing is what I do.

— Anatoli Boukreev

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now,…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I respect Everest very much.

— Anatoli Boukreev

Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their…

— Anatoli Boukreev

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

— Anatoli Boukreev

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

— Anatoli Boukreev

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

— Anatoli Boukreev

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

— Anatoli Boukreev

“I have climbed mountains for more than twenty-five years, and only once on an assault of an 8,000er did I ever use…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run…

— Anatoli Boukreev

“In late July, Boukreev obtained his copy of the Krakauer article . . . Boukreev and Adams listened as the article was…

— Anatoli Boukreev

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

— Anatoli Boukreev

“When I asked him what he thought, Neal said, 'Anatoli, many of our members are at high altitude for the first time,…

— Anatoli Boukreev

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began…

— Anatoli Boukreev

Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty…

— Anatoli Boukreev