Anatoli Boukreev Quotes

• 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.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Dream, Past, Journey

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• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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• Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

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  Sports, Struggle, Rocks

  Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

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  Wings, Bird, Mountain

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.301, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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.

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  Forever, Soul, Mountain

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.300, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Order, People, Groups

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Standards Set

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• I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Mean, Guides, Guide Me

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• A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

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  Travel, Quality, Gears

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Thinking, Impossible, Fischer

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• I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Country, Travel, Years

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• Climbing is what I do.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Climbing, Hiking

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• 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.

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  Life, Opportunity, Inspire

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• 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.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Athlete, Thinking, Oxygen

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• People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Teamwork, People, Pay

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• This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Years, Roles, Clear

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• I respect Everest very much.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Everest

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