Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and… — Wojciech Kurtyka Blood Copy Share Image
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others. — Wojciech Kurtyka Climbing 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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Being self centered 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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Balance Copy Share Image
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. — Wojciech Kurtyka Climbing 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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Concentration Copy Share Image
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Climbing 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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Absurd 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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Admiration 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… — Wojciech Kurtyka Access Copy Share Image
Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us. — Wojciech Kurtyka Effort 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,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Climbing Copy Share Image
In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed… — Wojciech Kurtyka Believe Copy Share Image
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated. — Wojciech Kurtyka Calmer Copy Share Image
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Breaths Copy Share Image
The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I… — Wojciech Kurtyka Climbing Copy Share Image
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside… — Wojciech Kurtyka Advice Copy Share Image
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits. — Wojciech Kurtyka Art Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Arise Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Addiction Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to… — Wojciech Kurtyka Accepting Copy Share Image
Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself. — Wojciech Kurtyka Climbing Copy Share Image
