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“Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.”

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Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

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Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

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Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

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Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.

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I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

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...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework…

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Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

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