“At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.” KnowsGoalFrontsHundredRemainsDozenExplosionsMeter Author:Jerzy Kukuczka
“The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.” FormNaturalEnvironmentMountainConcernedEssenceVarietyConcentrationExceptionalNatural EnvironmentNatural Phenomena Author:Wojciech Kurtyka
“The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.” FeelsBeautifulWalksAirClimbingSimplestLearn To FlyBeautiful Experiences Author:Dean Potter
“The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.” DreamMightBeliefGrewFulfilled Author:Jerzy Kukuczka
“Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.” SufferingEffortSweetWorthlessGreat Effort Author:Wojciech Kurtyka
“Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.” PleasureEffortExtraordinaryClimbingGreat Effort Author:Jerzy Kukuczka
“Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.” PeoplePassionGroupsShareActivityClimbing Author:Fred Nicole
“I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can learn something from the rock, but you need to communicate with element. You have to be part of the element, not fight it.” NeedsEarthFightingRocksPlanetsElementsConnectionsSkinsCommunicate Author:Fred Nicole
“There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.” WorldTwoSacredOther WorldsTwo Worlds Author:Ron Kauk
“The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.” MenHardHe ManMountainWiserComing BackLiberatedMomentaryCalmer Author:Wojciech Kurtyka