"Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above……" — Wojciech Kurtyka

"Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom."

— Wojciech Kurtyka

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20 Quotes by Wojciech Kurtyka

Wojciech Kurtyka has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second…
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends…
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and…
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains,…
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind…
The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling…
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can…
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and… — Roger Bannister
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done… — Edward Abbey
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at… — Joe Biden
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to… — Andrea Bocelli
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward… — Winston Churchill
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors… — Maya Angelou
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit… — Yvon Chouinard
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like… — Yvon Chouinard
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart… — Edwin Way Teale
I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo. — Unknown Author

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