To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!