Climbing Quote by Wojciech Kurtyka

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

I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

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

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

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

I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

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

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

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

Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

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

In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the…

— Wojciech Kurtyka