People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
From Anatoli Boukreev
Climbing is what I do.
I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
I respect Everest very much.
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.
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.
I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.
Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.
I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
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