Climbing Is What I Do.

I Don't Know What Being An Everest Guide Means. I Am A Coach, Not A Guide.

I Cannot Say To Be Glad Or Not Glad To Be On Everest. It Is My Life. I Have Opportunity To Be Here, So I Am Here.

Mountains Have The Power To Call Us Into Their Realms And There, Left Forever, Are Our Friends Whose Great Souls Were Longing For The Heights. Do Not Forget The Mountaineers Who Have Not Returned From The Summits.

I Think That People Ran Out Of Oxygen And Don't Really Know What Happened Up There, Maybe Some Of Them Just Made Things Up Because They Weren't Sure What Had Happened.

Mountains Are Cathedrals: Grand And Pure, The Houses Of My Religion. I Go To Them As Humans Go To Worship...from Their Lofty Summits, I View My Past, Dream Of The Future, And With Unusual Acuity I Am Allowed To Experience The Present Moment. My Strength Renewed, My Vision Cleared, In The Mountains I Celebrate Creation. On Each Journey I Am Reborn.